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The ‘most affordable’ DIY e-bike kit company just launched a new $349 version

Baua Electric

Swytch, makers of the self-proclaimed “most affordable” electric bike conversion kits out there, announced its newest model this morning. One of the reasons Swytch has been so popular during past releases is that ultra-affordable entry price, though the sleek design and ease of installation surely don’t hurt sales either.

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Elephant Robotics Unveils New Desktop Educational Robots for 2023

Cars That Think

Projects that involve robotics, artificial intelligence, speech recognition, and related technologies can help develop students’ analytical, creative, and practical skills. 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.

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Why battery-as-a-service will drive future of e-mobility | Autocar Professional

Baua Electric

Making them affordable involves moving the up-front capital expenditure of new vehicles to a recurring operating expenditure like in ICE vehicles, where fuel is the main recurring expense. Customer experience Most users of swappable battery technology use their vehicles for commercial mobility.

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IoT-ize Your Old Gadgets With a Mechanical Hijacking Device

Cars That Think

But if you want it, it's there—as long as you're able to afford it, of course. But for the vast majority of people, a DIY approach isn't practical, and buying something that works out of the box and comes with a friendly app seems like it would be worth a cost premium. Whether or not every device you own actually.

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Can This DIY Rocket Program Send an Astronaut to Space?

Cars That Think

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. The HEAT-2X rocket , scheduled to launch in late 2014, was meant to demonstrate that technology. BPM100 , uses technologies we mastered for the BPM5, with a few improvements.

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iRobot Launches Create 3, with ROS 2 Built In

Cars That Think

It’s a little scary to recall that when iRobot last released an update to the Create DIY/educational robot platform, the calendar read 2014 (!). It's important for the robot to be accessible; it’s important for people to be able to afford this platform so that they can build their projects on it. I think there are two reasons.

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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. “We work with a huge variety of consumers and so many of them initially believed that this technology is too difficult and complicated to install themselves. All at once it seemed so clear to me. My situation is exactly the same as most of America.