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A DIY Tracker Tough Enough for the Arctic

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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. With no guarantees on how long any given instrument might last, you have to deploy a lot of them to get the data you need.

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From Cleaning Offices to Designing EV Charging Stations

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Bekerytė moved from her native Lithuania to Norway in 2010 to take advantage of the country’s free university tuition, but first she had to find a way to support herself. She took the cleaning job, and scrimped and saved to pay for Norwegian reading and writing classes, a requirement to attend a university. Do what you love,” she says.

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Where the President-Elect Candidates Stand on Key Issues

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Increasing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion IEEE is committed to increasing DEI within the organization as well as in the engineering profession as a whole. How the organization will go about doing so was top of mind for some members. At Maker Faire conventions, people engage in hands-on DIY and STEM activities.

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Ukrainian Volunteers Use 3D Printers to Save Lives

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During COVID-19, companies, volunteers, universities, and concerned citizens (including me) began to create a system for networking. Therefore, together with garment companies, makers have organized the production of a 3D-printed version of the bandages.

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3D-Printed OLEDs Enable DIY  Screens Nearly Anywhere

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These organic light-emitting diode displays are so-called because of their self-emission capabilities, using organic carbon-based compounds and other ingredients to create colors. student at the University, now a post-doctoral researcher at MIT’s Computational Design and Fabrication Group. The result was a six-layer, 1.5-inch

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WestVirginia University : Formula Lightning Solar Cars Clarkson University :Solar Knights Kansas State University :Apollo Universityof Quebec : Eclipse II University ofToronto : Blue Sky QueensUniversity : Dawn Treader Street Cars CentralShenandoah Valley Regional Governors School : Datsun 240Z conversion.

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Happy IEEE Day!

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This IEEE Day, learn about IEEE Education Week (4-8 April 2022), a weeklong celebration of educational opportunities in pre-university STEM, university, and continuing professional education. photo contest and a 60-second innovation video contest are being organized as part of IEEE Day. See the courses and start learning today!

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