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DIY Car Maintenance Tasks to Try at Home

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Fortunately, certain maintenance tasks are DIY projects and can save you money, as the average cost of car repairs ranges between $300 to $500. This article highlights some DIY car maintenance tasks you can tackle at home.  Those with a pin or hook-and-slide design are quite simple to replace.

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Hi-fi, Radio, and Retro: The DIY Projects Spectrum Readers Love

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This month we’re celebrating the launch of our second PDF collection of Hands On articles, which IEEE members can download from IEEE Spectrum ’s website and share with friends. Far and away our most popular article in the last five years has been “ Build Your Own Professional-Grade Audio Amp on the Sort of Cheap ” (November 2018).

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A DIY E-bike Conversion on the Cheap

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It uses an "outrunner" motor designed for electric skateboards. motor designed for electric skateboards for $88 and fashioned a mount for it out of a few pieces of scrap aluminum. Being an open-source design no doubt keeps the price of this hardware down: The controller I bought set me back a mere $85. So I bought an outrunner.

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A DIY E-bike Conversion on the Cheap

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It uses an "outrunner" motor designed for electric skateboards. motor designed for electric skateboards for $88 and fashioned a mount for it out of a few pieces of scrap aluminum. Being an open-source design no doubt keeps the price of this hardware down: The controller I bought set me back a mere $85. So I bought an outrunner.

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Elephant Robotics Unveils New Desktop Educational Robots for 2023

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This is a sponsored article brought to you by Elephant Robotics. ultraArm P340: A New Robot for Education In 2023, Elephant Robotics is also introducing the ultraArm P340, a high-performance robotic arm designed to meet educational needs. There are two kits in the DIY series: the Drawing Kit and Laser Engraving Kit.

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Hacking Ham Radio for Texting

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Navy researcher Robert Bruninga and was originally designed to track tactical information in real time. MicroAPRS , which is an open-source and Arduino-compatible firmware package for DIY packet radio modems. NEO 6M-based GPS receiver that is popular with hobbyists for things such as DIY drones. I chose a $10.

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Can This DIY Rocket Program Send an Astronaut to Space?

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meter-tall Nexø II rocket was powered by a bipropellant engine designed and constructed by the Copenhagen Suborbitals team. That successful mission in August 2018 was a huge step toward our goal of sending an amateur astronaut to the edge of space aboard one of our DIY rockets. Even more important, it came back down in one piece.

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