Articles Building Cheap DIY 
Cars That Think
NOVEMBER 23, 2022
This month we’re celebrating the launch of our second PDF collection of Hands On articles, which IEEE members can download from IEEE Spectrum ’s website and share with friends. 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).
Cars That Think
AUGUST 20, 2021
At the time, e-bikes were still rather exotic, at least in the United States, so it seemed worth the expense and effort to build my own. This article appears in the September 2021 print issue as "An Instant E-bike.". In 2009, I wrote in these pages about my efforts to. Fast forward a dozen years. OK boomer," indeed.
Cars That Think
AUGUST 20, 2021
At the time, e-bikes were still rather exotic, at least in the United States, so it seemed worth the expense and effort to build my own. This article appears in the September 2021 print issue as "An Instant E-bike.". In 2009, I wrote in these pages about my efforts to. Fast forward a dozen years. OK boomer," indeed.
Cars That Think
OCTOBER 3, 2023
As he prepares to leave Spectrum to pursue more writing and assorted other projects, I asked Schneider to survey his DIY oeuvre and choose some highlights. Schneider’s training and experience as a geophysicist has informed not only his Hands On projects but also the hundreds of articles he has reported or edited over the years.
Cars That Think
OCTOBER 25, 2022
The biggest leap forward happened in 2012 when it was discovered that USB stick TV tuners using the RTL2832U demodulator chip could be tapped to make very cheap but effective SDR receivers. Building off the demand stimulated by this activity, a number of manufacturers have started making premium, but still relatively cheap, SDRs.
Cars That Think
NOVEMBER 28, 2021
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. We'll soon commence building a full-scale BPM100 engine, which will ultimately incorporate a new guidance system for the rocket. Carsten Olsen.
Cars That Think
JUNE 22, 2022
So when I decided to build a cheap DIY scintillating gamma spectrometer, it was the natural choice—although I didn’t realize I’d find myself navigating around teething problems of the sort that often affect a first-generation integrated circuit. I wanted to see if I could make it easy and affordable to build a spectrometer.
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