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Elephant Robotics Unveils New Desktop Educational Robots for 2023

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This is a sponsored article brought to you by Elephant Robotics. For robots to become widely used in education, they need to be smaller, easier to setup and use, and, more important, they need to be affordable to educators and students. There are two kits in the DIY series: the Drawing Kit and Laser Engraving Kit.

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DIY Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy with a Raspberry Pi Pico

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Not only does the RP2040 have lots of compute power, it hasn’t suffered the kind of shortages afflicting other chips. I wanted to see if I could make it easy and affordable to build a spectrometer. A Raspberry Pi Pico [left] provides both compute power and the gamma-ray spectrometer’s analog-to-digital converter. James Provost.

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Can This DIY Rocket Program Send an Astronaut to Space?

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meter-tall Nexø II rocket was powered by a bipropellant engine designed and constructed by the Copenhagen Suborbitals team. 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. Even more important, it came back down in one piece.

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Is It Economical to Convert ICE Car to Electric Car Using Conversion Kit

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You may make use of electric power without buying a new automobile by converting your current vehicle to an electric one. Labour and Expertise Converting a car to electric propulsion isn’t a simple DIY project for most individuals. The motor is around 90 kg in weight and can generate up to 300 kW of power and 5,000 Nm of torque.

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The Further Adventures of The Solangelist

Creative Greenius

I’d like to have me some solar, but I can’t afford it right now. That’s why we’ve built out a huge resource section with tons of articles and that’s why we’ve begun offering seminars and classes. All at once it seemed so clear to me. My situation is exactly the same as most of America.

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Electric Vehicles Open-up New Business Opportunities

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The necessity of research facilities, complex power train components, well-established brands, competition, etc. If you can manufacture high-quality premium electric vehicles for an affordable price, you may succeed in the market. For example, there is a pedal-powered hybrid electric motorcycle developed by E-Rockit.

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Lotus and Harmon partner up to add sound to hybrids

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The introduction of affordable noise management systems offers multiple benefits to manufacturers and consumers alike, achieving eco-friendly optimization of vehicle weight reductions and improved CO2 emissions. Working systems are ready for production implementation and manufacture.

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