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A DIY E-bike Conversion on the Cheap

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It would have been possible to have such information displayed on a smartphone, using a. This article appears in the September 2021 print issue as "An Instant E-bike.". Applying the front brake cuts power to the motor without triggering regenerative braking. Bluetooth module plugged into the ESC. OK boomer," indeed.

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A DIY E-bike Conversion on the Cheap

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It would have been possible to have such information displayed on a smartphone, using a. This article appears in the September 2021 print issue as "An Instant E-bike.". Applying the front brake cuts power to the motor without triggering regenerative braking. Bluetooth module plugged into the ESC. OK boomer," indeed.

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Our Hands-On Citizen-Scientist

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As he prepares to leave Spectrum to pursue more writing and assorted other projects, I asked Schneider to survey his DIY oeuvre and choose some highlights. Schneider’s training and experience as a geophysicist has informed not only his Hands On projects but also the hundreds of articles he has reported or edited over the years.

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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. right now. I chose a $10.

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The First Digital Camera Was The Size of a Toaster

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In a 2016 interview with DIY Photography , he said cassettes were the only permanent form of “digital storage” available to him at the time. Sasson and his colleagues invented a device to take the information stored on the tape and turn it into digital images. Although the CCDs could capture an image, they couldn’t store it.

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DIY Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy with a Raspberry Pi Pico

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So when I decided to build a cheap DIY scintillating gamma spectrometer, it was the natural choice—although I didn’t realize I’d find myself navigating around teething problems of the sort that often affect a first-generation integrated circuit. I find it fascinating that you can get so much information out of a single device.

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Search for Buried Treasure With This DIY Magnetometer

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So I read some World War II–era journal articles and learned about the magnetometers used to locate submerged German submarines. With that information, I constructed what’s called a fluxgate magnetometer. This article appears in the May 2022 print issue as “A DIY Magnetometer.”. It was crude, but it worked.

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