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How Ukraine’s Killer Drones Are Beating Russian Jamming

Cars That Think

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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Hacking A Car-Radio Chip Into The Ultimate SDR Receiver

Cars That Think

These contain a TEF6686 chip in a DIY-friendly package, suitable for through-hole soldering (the TEF6686 itself is a surface-mounted chip), and with radio-frequency shielding to help minimize interference. This article appears in the December 2024 print issue as “The Ultimate SDR Receiver.”

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The Further Adventures of The Solangelist

Creative Greenius

People like Sascha Deri of the Alternative Energy Store in Hudson, Massachusetts. That’s why we’ve built out a huge resource section with tons of articles and that’s why we’ve begun offering seminars and classes. But there are people out there who have already done it, so I’ll talk to them first.

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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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The First Digital Camera Was The Size of a Toaster

Cars That Think

Although the CCDs could capture an image, they couldn’t store it. In a 2016 interview with DIY Photography , he said cassettes were the only permanent form of “digital storage” available to him at the time. He designed it so each tape would store 30 images. The image was then transferred to the cassette.

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Security With a Spectrometer

Cars That Think

By modifying the text output initiated after a button press, it can send a stored password. This article appears in the January 2022 print issue as “My Password Is: [Color Bar].”. My setup should be fairly easy to duplicate and put into a permanent housing, though the spectrometer is admittedly pricey.

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I run my electric tractor completely off-grid. Here’s my secret

Baua Electric

I wrote an entire article on building the charging shed, so you can check that out for more details on the build on the build process. Once in place, the container creates both a place to store the tractor so it’s not out exposed to the elements and a place to charge it up during the day.

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