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Students Use Their Tech Know-How to Protect the Environment

Cars That Think

Some teams are working on their projects as part of an engineering curriculum or a senior design project. Seven Ohlone College students who are part of the IEEE STEAM (STEM plus arts) Club in Fremont are working with two community volunteers to design a solution. Others are using their IEEE student branch to implement the projects.

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This Community-Run Internet is Bridging the Digital Divide

Cars That Think

For many of us, the Internet is part of daily life. VPUU works to transform low-income neighborhoods into safer, more sustainable communities. But that’s not the case for more than 3.5 The 10-Gbps network is now one of the largest community-based networks in South Africa, with more than 100 hotspots and 60,000 unique users.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

Cars That Think

Yen Meng Jiin/Singapore Press/AP Tan, the third of six brothers, was born and raised in a kampung (village) in the neighborhood of Geylang, Singapore. Personal computers in the late 1980s began incorporating CD-ROM drives, but initially these could read only from prerecorded disks and could not store user-generated data.

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Smoothing out the DMOC acceleration/braking

Porsche 914 EV Conversion

One of the annoying behaviors of the motor system in my AC 914 kit is that the default DMOC445 parameters causes the acceleration and braking to have oscillations. So, I took the car out into the neighborhood with the laptop hooked up and started playing around with the EEX???TorqueSlew TorqueSlew parameters listed in the DMOC445.

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Top 10 Reasons To Buy An E-Bike

Get Electric Vehicle

You don’t have to buy a new bike because you can adapt your old cycle with an adaption kit and do it yourself in a matter of minutes, how cool is that? As I have mentioned earlier with the help of an adoption kit you can easily convert your old conventional bicycle into an E-Bike. Top 10 Reasons to drive an electric bike.

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Scooter Helmets: Everything you need to know

Green Authority

The fit kit will ensure it’s sized to any shaped head, so you have a snug barrier between your brain and any dangers on the road. While you can buy all of the helmets mentioned in this guide directly from Amazon, it’s also worthwhile visiting your neighborhood EV shop. Buy the Predator Fr7 Certified helmet on Amazon.

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Solar Powered Greenius Producing Massive South Bay Energy

Creative Greenius

As we reported in our exclusive interview with ABC Solar’s Brad Bartz last month, he was battling the City of Torrance on behalf of a homeowner in my very own Hollywood Riviera neighborhood who was being blocked from installing solar by the City. You read his take on the new PICC conversion kits and a whole lot more.

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