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Hi-fi, Radio, and Retro: The DIY Projects Spectrum Readers Love

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And a follow-up to that article, “ A Web-Enabled, High Quality, DIY Audio Amp ” (March 2022), comes in at No. Print an Arduino-Powered Color Mechanical Television ” (June 2022) went even further back in broadcast history to reveal the surprising quality that electromechanical televisions were capable of. Drop me a line at cass.s@ieee.org

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IoT-ize Your Old Gadgets With a Mechanical Hijacking Device

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If there's one specific device that you'd like to automate in one specific, many cheaper alternatives may be available (like connected power switches), or it could even be cheaper to buy an entirely new device. Recent technological developments are introducing personal service robots into the home.

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Energy Harvesting for Wearable Technology Steps Up

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Fortunately, though, at wearables’ modest power budgets, energy is effectively everywhere. It’s in the sun’s rays and radio waves, the skin’s sweat and body heat, a person’s motion and their footfalls. While wearable devices don’t generally require much power, wearables must be, well, easy to wear. volts for about 60 hours.

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Road Test: 2024 Ford Maverick Lariat FWD Hybrid

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The Most Fuel-Efficient Gas-Powered Pickup You Can Buy Ford Maverick Hybrid owners will willingly tell you all about their truck, so be prepared to hang-out for a while. A hybrid hit Hybrid Power/Efficiency to Love Clean Fleet Report spent a week in the 2024 Ford Maverick Lariat Hybrid, powered by a 2.5-Liter

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From Cleaning Offices to Designing EV Charging Stations

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She recalls that when she was about 5 years old, a friend of her mother’s, who worked as an electrical engineer at a company that built power transformers, handed her some old schematics from her job to use as drawing paper. He was a DIY enthusiast willing to try his hand at just about anything, from electronics to plumbing.

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Road Test: 2022 Ford Maverick XL FWD EcoBoost

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A more powerful option. EcoBoost Maverick has significantly more horsepower and torque than the hybrid power plant of the 2.5-liter The electric power steering was properly tuned to feel connected to the road, making for a fun drive that is more similar to a crossover than a truck.

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Andrew Leland on Assistive Tech for the Blind

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If you think about the blind person, you know having a mouse isn’t very useful because they can’t see where the pointer is. Everything that a sighted person can see visually, you can hear aurally with a screen reader. They weren’t as powerful as they are now. The screen reader pulls the page navigation into the keyboard.