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A DIY Tracker Tough Enough for the Arctic

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Unfortunately, the cost of buying instruments commercially severely limited how many trackers we could deploy. So, I set about building an open-source ice tracker from DIY components that not only proved to be much, much cheaper but also much more capable than the commercial options. microwatts.

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A DIY E-bike Conversion on the Cheap

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Thanks to a few recent technical and commercial developments, I was able to come up with an e-bike conversion that cost me less than US $200 and yet functions impressively. Here I took advantage of already owning an electric lawnmower, figuring that the 40-volt, 4-ampere-hour battery I had for it would serve well.

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A DIY E-bike Conversion on the Cheap

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Thanks to a few recent technical and commercial developments, I was able to come up with an e-bike conversion that cost me less than US $200 and yet functions impressively. Here I took advantage of already owning an electric lawnmower, figuring that the 40-volt, 4-ampere-hour battery I had for it would serve well.

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Energy Harvesting for Wearable Technology Steps Up

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volts for about 60 hours. The team was inspired by self-winding watches , which have existed since the late 18th century and transform wrist movement into energy. So the researchers bought a commercial microgenerator designed for wearable and IoT devices called the Kinetron MSG32. In the future, DIY may not even be necessary.

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Search for Buried Treasure With This DIY Magnetometer

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commercialized around 2010. But feeding it to a second op amp configured as a simple comparator (one that compares the input with zero volts) squared the signal up nicely, with the output switching between the +12-volt and –12-volt supply rails every 3 milliseconds or so. It can be purchased. on Amazon for just US $40.

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Car Companies Standardize Plug for Electric Vehicles : Gas 2.0

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The three-point, 400-volt plug, which will allow electric cars to be recharged anywhere in a matter of minutes , will be unveiled Monday at the world’s biggest industrial technology fair in Hanover, northern Germany. Perhaps you should have checked that before posting. as stated. 5 Clayton B. About Gas 2.0 on It’s On!