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Check out this guy’s awesome DIY solar-charging electric bike utility trailer

Electrek

Here at Electrek we love DIY projects. In this case, we got the chance to chat with the builder of an awesome solar charging utility trailer that the industrious e-bike owner built to upgrade his ride. The post Check out this guy’s awesome DIY solar-charging electric bike utility trailer appeared first on Electrek.

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RPM Act in Congress would legalize emission defeat devices, for racing only (supposedly)

Green Car Reports

It’s being called “DIY Dieselgate,” and it could make the air people breathe a lot dirtier. An entire section of the automotive industry—racing—has been exempt from the requirements for emission-control devices found on our everyday cars and trucks.

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Is an AC motor in your future?

DIY Electric Car

the "lower" cost systems out there for DIY people. methodology and materials required to do a DIY Industrial AC motor customization. to the DIY crowd. The present AC50 and soon to be AC75 systems are at the top of. Among this study group, are engineers, scientist types and some. like a Swiss army knife).

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Elephant Robotics Unveils New Desktop Educational Robots for 2023

Cars That Think

These kits help users learn about machine vision and experiment with industrial-like applications such as dynamic and static intelligent recognition and grasping. There are two kits in the DIY series: the Drawing Kit and Laser Engraving Kit. It is a platform that generates the G-Code track and provides primary cases for users.

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Can This DIY Rocket Program Send an Astronaut to Space?

Cars That Think

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. Luckily, we have good industry contacts who can help out. Even more important, it came back down in one piece. We're now building the. generous donors around the world.

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Detect Quakes With “Raspberry Shakes”

Cars That Think

Searching the interwebs, I found no shortage of leads about how to build a DIY seismometer. The problem is that the DIY seismometer designs I was seeing were large and ungainly contraptions. If I had a suitably sensitive seismometer, though, I’d be able to measure them. I recently decided that I needed to give this a try.

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From Cleaning Offices to Designing EV Charging Stations

Cars That Think

He was a DIY enthusiast willing to try his hand at just about anything, from electronics to plumbing. Making an impression at an engineering contest After completing the one-year language course at the University of Stavanger in 2016, Bekerytė enrolled in the school’s bachelor’s degree program in industrial automation and circuit design.

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