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

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Far and away our most popular article in the last five years has been “ Build Your Own Professional-Grade Audio Amp on the Sort of Cheap ” (November 2018). And a follow-up to that article, “ A Web-Enabled, High Quality, DIY Audio Amp ” (March 2022), comes in at No. Are there trends in DIY projects you think we’re missing?

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Can This DIY Rocket Program Send an Astronaut to Space?

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That successful mission in August 2018 was a huge step toward our goal of sending an amateur astronaut to the edge of space aboard one of our DIY rockets. We're now building the. In 2018, the Nexø II rocket launched successfully [left] and returned safely to the Baltic Sea [right]. generous donors around the world.

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A Web-Enabled, High Quality, DIY Audio Amp

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And I’d already built my own speakers, so why not build it myself? November 2018 Hands On article, “DIY Pro Audio ” in IEEE Spectrum , and it convinced me it was possible, although I wanted to go beyond just a power amplifier to something more like my lamented Sansui. spiritual successor to Zorpette’s 2018 amplifier.

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The First Digital Camera Was The Size of a Toaster

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Photos have become the universal form of casual conversation,” he said in a 2018 interview with The Institute. In a 2016 interview with DIY Photography , he said cassettes were the only permanent form of “digital storage” available to him at the time. That didn’t deter Sasson, who continued to build more cameras for Kodak.

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Tesla Autopilot’s emergency vehicle response feature is addressing a deadly problem no one wants to talk about

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Since 2018, there have been over 45,000 collisions with stationary roadside objects. If you ask the biggest danger to a firefighter, most envision being trapped in a burning or collapsing building. A DIY Solution. Every seven seconds, an object is struck. Every other day, a responder is struck and injured.

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The Soviet-Era, Z80-based Galaksija Dared to Be Different

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The Galaksija is a Z80 -based, 8-bit DIY machine, cleverly designed so that its bill of materials meshed exactly with what a Yugoslavian was able to import from Western Europe. An English translation of the article was published by No Starch Press in 2018 in PoC||GTFO Vol.

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A Smart Artificial Pancreas Could Conquer Diabetes

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In each of these approaches, modeling work went far to create the conceptual background for building an artificial pancreas. The next step was to actually build it. Then there are the many, many DIY projects underway. But such testing is time consuming and costly. The system was cleared by the FDA for clinical use in 2017.

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