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Home Charging Installation Risks and Advice

Setec Powerr

In this article, we will discuss the potential hazards and provide advice on how to mitigate them, ensuring a safe and effective home charging setup. Unauthorized Installations: DIY or unauthorized installations can lead to improper setup, posing safety hazards and potentially voiding warranties on your charging equipment or vehicle.

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Can This DIY Rocket Program Send an Astronaut to Space?

Cars That Think

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. supporters are counting down until the historic day when an amateur astronaut will climb aboard a homemade rocket and wave goodbye to Earth, ready to take a giant leap for DIY-kind.

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The First Digital Camera Was The Size of a Toaster

Cars That Think

In a 2016 interview with DIY Photography , he said cassettes were the only permanent form of “digital storage” available to him at the time. This playback unit converted the data to a standard NTSC signal so the images could be displayed on a TV screen. Although the CCDs could capture an image, they couldn’t store it.

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This Huge DIY Workbench Gives You a Hand

Cars That Think

Though this space is generous by most standards, it seems I always needed “just a bit" more. 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. Then things got more complex.

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Car Companies Standardize Plug for Electric Vehicles : Gas 2.0

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Car Companies Standardize Plug for Electric Vehicles Written by Jerry James Stone Published on April 19th, 2009 34 Comments Posted in Electric Cars (EVs) , Plug-in hybrid EVs Just a few hours after General Motors called for a standardized EV plug , one has been created! Update: The plug depicted above is not the agreed upon standard.

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

Teslarati

Author’s Note and Trigger Warning: The succeeding sections of this article contains links to footage and other online references that may cause distress to readers. A DIY Solution. They are dying because cars crash into them while they’re parked on the side of the road. The Flaws of HumanPilot. Discretion is advised.

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The Soviet-Era, Z80-based Galaksija Dared to Be Different

Cars That Think

The Galaksija is a Z80 -based, 8-bit DIY machine, cleverly designed so that its bill of materials meshed exactly with what a Yugoslavian was able to import from Western Europe. An English translation of the article was published by No Starch Press in 2018 in PoC||GTFO Vol.

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