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IoT-ize Your Old Gadgets With a Mechanical Hijacking Device

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Or, that was the idea, anyway. But for the vast majority of people, a DIY approach isn't practical, and buying something that works out of the box and comes with a friendly app seems like it would be worth a cost premium. Recent technological developments are introducing personal service robots into the home.

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Video Friday: Robot Arms for the ISS

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Columbia ] Using biological experiments, robot models, and a geometric theory of locomotion, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology investigated how and why intermediate lizard species, with their elongated bodies and short limbs, might use their bodies to move. CHAP ] This video is.strange. GRASP Lab ].

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Can This DIY Rocket Program Send an Astronaut to Space?

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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. The HEAT-2X rocket , scheduled to launch in late 2014, was meant to demonstrate that technology. BPM100 , uses technologies we mastered for the BPM5, with a few improvements.

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Show Off Your Car At the Exploratorium in San Francisco

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Hello DIY'ers, The Exploratorium in the San Francisco is looking for someone who'd like to show off their DIY Electric Car for one night on October 7th as part of our monthly After Dark series. As it turns out, the Exploratorium was born out of the DIY spirit. I'm looking forward to meeting the members of the DIY Electric Car Forum.

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Build Your Own Hi-fi Ear Defenders

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Many of us have gotten used to being able to dampen unwanted sound, thanks to the noise-cancellation technology found in, for example, Appleā€™s AirPods Pro earbuds. Now, after countless versions of wiring things together, and even designing my own audio mixers, I finally have a DIY solution that works within a reasonable budget.

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Tony Fadell: The Nest Thermostat Disrupted My Life

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If youā€™ve got an idea for a business or a new product, you usually donā€™t have to wait a decade to make sure itā€™s worth doing. But the technology that I needed to make it happenā€”reliable low-cost communications, cheap screens and processorsā€”didnā€™t exist yet. So I let the idea catch me. The thermostat chased me for 10 years.

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The First Digital Camera Was The Size of a Toaster

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It was a photographic system to demonstrate the idea of an all-electronic camera that didnā€™t use any consumables in the capturing and display of still photographic images.ā€. In a 2016 interview with DIY Photography , he said cassettes were the only permanent form of ā€œdigital storageā€ available to him at the time.

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