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A DIY Tracker Tough Enough for the Arctic

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So, I set about building an open-source ice tracker from DIY components that not only proved to be much, much cheaper but also much more capable than the commercial options. Doing in situ data processing and reduction is especially important because of the limited and expensive bandwidth available via the Iridium satellite network.

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A DIY E-bike Conversion on the Cheap

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E-bike availability and ridership have exploded. Most components are inexpensive and readily available. It would have been possible to have such information displayed on a smartphone, using a. At the time, e-bikes were still rather exotic, at least in the United States, so it seemed worth the expense and effort to build my own.

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A DIY E-bike Conversion on the Cheap

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E-bike availability and ridership have exploded. Most components are inexpensive and readily available. It would have been possible to have such information displayed on a smartphone, using a. At the time, e-bikes were still rather exotic, at least in the United States, so it seemed worth the expense and effort to build my own.

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Hacking Ham Radio for Texting

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Navy researcher Robert Bruninga and was originally designed to track tactical information in real time. APRS supports sending text messages, and if you're in range of an Internet-connected gateway node you can even. MicroAPRS , which is an open-source and Arduino-compatible firmware package for DIY packet radio modems.

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Ukrainian Volunteers Use 3D Printers to Save Lives

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First, the 3D-printing facilities and services available in Ukraine usually use fused deposition modeling (FDM) 3D-printing technology, which often results in components with poor performance and less than optimal survivability in wartime. Personal connections are one of my primary sources of information about what is happening in Ukraine.

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Electric Bike Conversion Kit Selection

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In electric bike conversion kit there are a number of small parts available, but we consider only three major parts ( Motor, Battery, Controller) & costly parts of kit in detail. Front wheel connected conversion kit- very easy to install but less popular. As name indicate connect in hub & maximum use in electric bicycle.

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Search for Buried Treasure With This DIY Magnetometer

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With that information, I constructed what’s called a fluxgate magnetometer. I connected this. But all that wasn’t available in the 1940s. This article appears in the May 2022 print issue as “A DIY Magnetometer.”. It was crude, but it worked. I was reminded of that project by a recent. It can be purchased.

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