Clean Fleet Report
AUGUST 22, 2023
A DIY Electric and Hybrid Car Maintenance Guide Essential Tools and Tips to Get You Started This article may contain affiliate links. Essential Tools for Electric and Hybrid Car Maintenance Understanding which quality mechanics tools and other essential supplies you need is the first step in DIY maintenance.
Cars That Think
NOVEMBER 23, 2022
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).
Cars That Think
AUGUST 20, 2021
Terrafirma Technology , a company started by an engineer named Michael House who has gone into business supplying 3D-printed adapters to people who want to repurpose lithium-ion power-tool batteries. This article appears in the September 2021 print issue as "An Instant E-bike.". On the handlebars are three controls: a.
Cars That Think
AUGUST 20, 2021
Terrafirma Technology , a company started by an engineer named Michael House who has gone into business supplying 3D-printed adapters to people who want to repurpose lithium-ion power-tool batteries. This article appears in the September 2021 print issue as "An Instant E-bike.". On the handlebars are three controls: a.
Cars That Think
FEBRUARY 25, 2022
November 2018 Hands On article, “DIY Pro Audio ” in IEEE Spectrum , and it convinced me it was possible, although I wanted to go beyond just a power amplifier to something more like my lamented Sansui. The remaining components are a collection of power supplies. In the end I used multiple commercial supplies.
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. This article appears in the July 2022 print issue as “DIY Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy.”.
Cars That Think
APRIL 26, 2022
So I read some World War II–era journal articles and learned about the magnetometers used to locate submerged German submarines. This article appears in the May 2022 print issue as “A DIY Magnetometer.”. With that information, I constructed what’s called a fluxgate magnetometer. It was crude, but it worked.
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