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Build a Passive Radar With Software-Defined Radio

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IEEE Spectrum since 2006, when SDR become something remotely within a maker’s budget. Building off the demand stimulated by this activity, a number of manufacturers have started making premium, but still relatively cheap, SDRs. I’ve checked in with amateur SDR developments for. An explosion of interest in SDRs followed. James Provost.

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Building the Future of Smart Home Security

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It’s nearly impossible to find a household today that doesn’t have at least one connected smart home device installed. It redefined the home security space by introducing wireless, DIY products and pioneered giving customers the ability to monitor their homes via a smartphone app.

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Best speakers ever

Electric Auto Association

Straubel ’s August 2006 preview of the company’s Roadster at a chapter meeting. “We Much earlier in the chapter’s history, member Otmar Ebenhoech, who would go on to create the Villa DC Motor Controller, made a strong impression on the DIY community using DC motors. “And that entrepreneurship persists here in the valley.

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How to Get a Plug-In Hybrid

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

CalCars supports conversion programs as a strategy to increase awareness and support for PHEVs and thereby motivate automakers to build production PHEVs. is Hymotions San Francisco-based distributor/installer. CalCars converted Priuses into a PRIUS+ at the 2006 and 2007 Maker Faire s. Go to Hymotion.com. Green Gears, Inc.

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