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Building the Future of Smart Home Security

Cars That Think

From video doorbells to robot vacuums, automated lighting, and voice assistants, smart home technology has invaded consumers’ homes and shows no sign of disappearing anytime soon. 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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This slightly shady $500 kit turns your e-bike into an electric snowmobile

Baua Electric

It’s a situation we’ve probably all experienced before: you’re riding your e-bike and thinking to yourself, “This is nice, but you know what could make this bike even better? I do have to let you know going into this that the product page is very light on details, so I’ve had to suss out some specs here. Tank tracks!”

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The First Digital Camera Was The Size of a Toaster

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It was a photographic system to demonstrate the idea of an all-electronic camera that didn’t use any consumables in the capturing and display of still photographic images.”. Smith at Bell Labs , consist of a sensor that converts an incoming two-dimensional light pattern into an electrical signal that in turn becomes an image.

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iRobot Launches Create 3, with ROS 2 Built In

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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 (!). Additionally, the robot includes cliff, bump and slip detection, along with LED lights and a speaker. IEEE Spectrum: Why is the Create important to iRobot? I think there are two reasons.

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EV advocacy, provincial style 

Electric Auto Association

Vancouver Electric Vehicle Association (VEVA) has been very involved in supporting legislation promoting sustainability on both the provincial and federal government levels, largely through its very active government relations committee. Our electricity provider is BC Hydro and we watch them very closely.” “We Again like U.S.

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

Teslarati

Tesla is currently being investigated by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) after several of its electric cars crashed into stationary emergency vehicles while Autopilot was engaged. This was despite the fact that all 50 states in the USA have a “Slow Down Move Over (SDMO)” Law in place.

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This Huge DIY Workbench Gives You a Hand

Cars That Think

So I decided to build a new workbench. I decided on building a 213-by-107-cm bench. Toward the back of the bench rests a hot-air gun and a soldering station, as well as my bag of other electrical tools. For light, I initially just used a linkage-based desk lamp with a powerful three-lobe LED bulb. James Provost.

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