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A DIY E-bike Conversion on the Cheap

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Being an open-source design no doubt keeps the price of this hardware down: The controller I bought set me back a mere $85. This article appears in the September 2021 print issue as "An Instant E-bike.". For that I took advantage of the open-source VESC Project created by Benjamin Vedder. As I raced ahead, I chuckled to myself. "OK

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

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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).

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A DIY E-bike Conversion on the Cheap

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Being an open-source design no doubt keeps the price of this hardware down: The controller I bought set me back a mere $85. This article appears in the September 2021 print issue as "An Instant E-bike.". For that I took advantage of the open-source VESC Project created by Benjamin Vedder. As I raced ahead, I chuckled to myself. "OK

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Tips: How to Make Money from Your Old Car

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This article may contain affiliate links. If you’re looking to get the best price from your old car, it’s practical to shop around instead of accepting the first offer on your table. Many individuals have made a career from purchasing old vehicles at a low price and reselling at an improved price.

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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 have plenty of engineers, as well as people like me, a pricing manager with a skydiving hobby. Even more important, it came back down in one piece. We're now building the.

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DIY Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy with a Raspberry Pi Pico

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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. This article appears in the July 2022 print issue as “DIY Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy.”.

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This Huge DIY Workbench Gives You a Hand

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Then I added an eyebolt for my air compressor—a fabulous tool for its roughly US $40 price—to keep it at the ready for blowing off excess material. I added a DIY solder squid—a block with four flexible arms that I use to hold components in place while soldering—with a concrete base and an automatic solder fume extractor. James Provost.

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