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Build Long-Range IoT Applications Fast With Meshtastic

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The stand-alone communicator [bottom of illustration] can be ordered assembled, or you can build your own from open-source design files. I bought a $25 WisBlock meshtastic starter kit from RAKwireless, which marries a LoRA radio/microcontroller and an expansion board. I chose this board because its 3.3-volt

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GM demos its new Energy products by running a mansion off a Silverado EV

Baua Electric

GM also plans to build a virtual power plant, as we’ve seen other energy services companies do , which aggregates the energy available from hundreds or thousands of customers and discharges it to the grid when needed. FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links.

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Automotive Grade Linux releases latest version of open infotainment platform

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AGL is also releasing a software development kit (SDK) that enables rapid application development on the AGL platform. Developers and suppliers can build once and have a product work for multiple OEMs instead of having to build different versions for each make and model. As part of UCB 3.0, The AGL UCB 3.0

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Kespry and NVIDIA demonstrate deep learning for commercial autonomous drones; NVIDIA Jetson TX1

Green Car Congress

The demo was conducted using the NVIDIA Jetson TX1 embedded module—unveiled yesterday at an NVIDIA event in San Francisco. Available as a module, Jetson TX1 is also built into a Developer Kit, which enables hobbyists and professionals to develop and test highly advanced autonomous devices. Support for CUDA 7.0.

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Expecting ROCE to be higher than 20% in long run: Sunil Bohra, Uno Minda – ET Auto

Baua Electric

What is your current EV order book and whether or not the kit value has actually increased? If you see in terms of kit value, we are already at the max kit value possible in the industry domestically. We have some strategic no-goes like battery or body or tyre, etc.

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Try This Brand New Analog Computer

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The natural choice was to build on Anabrid’s demo patch for a lunar-lander game: starting above the surface with a limited amount of fuel, a spacecraft is in grip of the moon’s gravity. It felt only appropriate to hook up an old analog oscilloscope I’d cadged from my older brother. But I wanted to test out the hybrid approach.

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Never Recharge Your Consumer Electronics Again?

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So we had to build on just constant failing, but it’s okay because you’re in a research phase. So in the end, we had to build our own machine building capacity here. We’re like 50 guys building machines, so. We are now building the largest solar cell factory— one of the largest solar cell factories in Europe.