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Make Your Own Digital Pinhole Camera

Cars That Think

My home of Port Townsend in Washington is a community full of arty types and makers. On the downside, both off-the-shelf and DIY pinhole cameras use film or photographic paper. Calls to participate in local cultural activities are not uncommon, but when I saw one for a pinhole-camera photography contest it caught my eye.

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The First Digital Camera Was The Size of a Toaster

Cars That Think

In a 2016 interview with DIY Photography , he said cassettes were the only permanent form of “digital storage” available to him at the time. Today Sasson’s original digital camera is on display at the Smithsonian Institution ’s National Museum of American History , in Washington, D.C. He designed it so each tape would store 30 images.

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Converting a Formula SAE Car to Electric Power

DIY Electric Car

I am mechanical engineering student at the University of Washington and I thought I share my senior design project that a couple of other students and I are working on for the UW Formula SAE Team. Greetings! It is to convert the 2010 built car to electric power! The design phase has gone on for a while now and is nearly complete!

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Chrysler unveils new electric minivan for the US Postal Service

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Department of Energys Transportation Electrification stimulus program for a federal grant that would enable a nationwide demonstration fleet with the United States Postal Service (USPS) * Potential partnership with USPS to include infrastructure support from ConEd, Duke Energy, DTE Energy and Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) Washington, D.C.,

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Automakers agree on common plug to recharge electric vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Washington DC announced as first MPH mobile TV market LG GC900 Viewty Smart, now more official than ever before Panasonics AG-HMC40 does 1080p24 on something of a budget NetBlender drops iPhone exclusivity on BD Touch 2.0, iFrogz EarPollution DJ Style headphones urban-hipster review NetBlender drops iPhone exclusivity on BD Touch 2.0,

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Gas War: U.S. House Suggests Ending California Emissions Authority, White House Says Nope

The Truth About Cars

Electric cars also haven’t yet reached parity with gasoline or diesel vehicles in terms of uptime and there are lingering questions about serviceability as it pertains to DIY maintenance. The fact remains that there’s an affordability issue with modern vehicles that’s been even tougher for EVs to cope with.