Cars That Think
AUGUST 20, 2021
Bluetooth module plugged into the ESC. In 2009, I wrote in these pages about my efforts to. add an electric motor to a bicycle —a project that involved a considerable outlay of money and many hours in a machine shop behind a lathe. Fast forward a dozen years. One thing that hasn't really changed, though, is the expense. James Provost.
Cars That Think
AUGUST 20, 2021
Bluetooth module plugged into the ESC. In 2009, I wrote in these pages about my efforts to. add an electric motor to a bicycle —a project that involved a considerable outlay of money and many hours in a machine shop behind a lathe. Fast forward a dozen years. One thing that hasn't really changed, though, is the expense. James Provost.
Cars That Think
NOVEMBER 17, 2021
MicroAPRS , which is an open-source and Arduino-compatible firmware package for DIY packet radio modems. The PCB plugs into an Arduino Mega [middle right], a GPS antenna [top left], a mini keyboard [bottom middle], and batteries [bottom right]. NEO 6M-based GPS receiver that is popular with hobbyists for things such as DIY drones.
Cars That Think
JUNE 22, 2022
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. My interest in gamma-ray spectroscopy came from my physics studies. V the SiPM needs.
Cars That Think
JULY 21, 2021
I added a DIY solder squid—a block with four flexible arms that I use to hold components in place while soldering—with a concrete base and an automatic solder fume extractor. I normally keep it plugged into a USB port that provides power, but there is also a battery inside for when a USB port isn't available. James Provost.
Cars That Think
DECEMBER 20, 2021
For my prototype, I plugged the spectrometer breakout board into a small breadboard, along with a Start button and the extremely capable Arm Cortex–based Teensy 4.0. My editor at IEEE Spectrum is convinced that in the future smartphones will have spectrometers to probe the world around them [True-Ed.]. My part of the experiment?
Cars That Think
JULY 27, 2023
The Galaksija is a Z80 -based, 8-bit DIY machine, cleverly designed so that its bill of materials meshed exactly with what a Yugoslavian was able to import from Western Europe. An English translation of the article was published by No Starch Press in 2018 in PoC||GTFO Vol.
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