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Opinion: Software-Defined Vehicles Will Be Awful

The Truth About Cars

Based upon how our readers responded to our previous article where a former engineer explained how he believed automakers had intentionally advanced planned obsolescence , modern industry trends do not seem to be broadly appreciated. Further integrating connectivity simultaneously opens up those vehicles to fresh vulnerabilities.

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Henry Samueli and the Rise of Digital Broadband

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How a DIY radio kit launched Henry Samuelis career Samuelis path toward becoming one of todays key players in digital communications started 33 years ago, when he was a seventh grader. This article appeared in the September 1999 print issue. It was one of the first applications of DSP technology to a satellite communications system.

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How Ukraine’s Killer Drones Are Beating Russian Jamming

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In this article, originally posted on April 6, we described another bold Ukrainian drone initiative, which was applying artificial intelligence-based navigational software to enable killer drones to navigate to targets even in the presence of heavy jamming.

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A DIY Electric and Hybrid Car Maintenance Guide

Clean Fleet Report

A DIY Electric and Hybrid Car Maintenance Guide Essential Tools and Tips to Get You Started This article may contain affiliate links. Essential Tools for Electric and Hybrid Car Maintenance Understanding which quality mechanics tools and other essential supplies you need is the first step in DIY maintenance.

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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. The trickiest part, the double-curved "throat" section that connects the combustion chamber to the exhaust nozzle, requires computer-controlled machining equipment that we don't have.

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This Huge DIY Workbench Gives You a Hand

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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. The Grounduino provides screw terminals for hooking wires to the Nano and, as the name suggests, five extra ground connections (and five extra 5V connections as well).

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A DIY E-bike Conversion on the Cheap

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The handlebar-mounted controls connect with an Arduino, which interprets their settings and translates them into a PPM signal, which is applied to the electronic speed controller. The speed controller is connected to the motor and battery in the usual fashion, with an automotive-type blade fuse in line for safety. OK boomer," indeed.

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