Cars That Think
AUGUST 20, 2021
Thanks to a few recent technical and commercial developments, I was able to come up with an e-bike conversion that cost me less than US $200 and yet functions impressively. This article appears in the September 2021 print issue as "An Instant E-bike.". Consider the two e-bikes described in. As I raced ahead, I chuckled to myself. "OK
Cars That Think
AUGUST 20, 2021
Thanks to a few recent technical and commercial developments, I was able to come up with an e-bike conversion that cost me less than US $200 and yet functions impressively. This article appears in the September 2021 print issue as "An Instant E-bike.". Consider the two e-bikes described in. As I raced ahead, I chuckled to myself. "OK
Cars That Think
APRIL 6, 2022
In a 2016 interview with DIY Photography , he said cassettes were the only permanent form of “digital storage” available to him at the time. It only took 50 milliseconds to capture the image, but it took 23 seconds to record it to the tape,” Sasson said in the 2015 Times article. He designed it so each tape would store 30 images.
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. Rockets built by commercial players like. We can't afford to test our systems to the extent that commercial companies do (that's why we'll never sell rides on our rockets).
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. This article appears in the July 2022 print issue as “DIY Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy.”.
Cars That Think
FEBRUARY 25, 2022
November 2018 Hands On article, “DIY Pro Audio ” in IEEE Spectrum , and it convinced me it was possible, although I wanted to go beyond just a power amplifier to something more like my lamented Sansui. In commercial product development, an optimized microcontroller would be the way to go, but for my DIY project, a Pi was perfect.
Cars That Think
APRIL 26, 2022
So I read some World War II–era journal articles and learned about the magnetometers used to locate submerged German submarines. commercialized around 2010. This article appears in the May 2022 print issue as “A DIY Magnetometer.”. With that information, I constructed what’s called a fluxgate magnetometer.
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