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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. During the term, each student was expected to build a crystal radio from a kit, using a single crystal and an antenna wound on a toilet paper tube.

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How Ukraine’s Killer Drones Are Beating Russian Jamming

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At the heart of the quadcopters matte grey body is a machine-vision-enabled computer running a 1-gigahertz Arm processor that provides the Ghost Dragon with its latest superpower: the ability to navigate autonomously, without access to any global navigation satellite system (GNSS). Its a formula thats working for Auterion as well.

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This electric bike brand will soon start building their e-bikes in New York

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Led by longtime industry veteran Bill Klehm, eBliss Global will invest over $4 million into a new facility and expects to begin production in the third quarter of 2025. According to WKTV in Utica, eBliss Global isn’t just another newcomer to the booming e-bike market.

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Build a Better DIY Seismometer

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I had initially considered other sorts of DIY seismometers, and I was put off by how large and ungainly they were. Most DIY seismometers use a magnet and coil to sense motion as the moving magnet induces a current in the fixed coil. Hertz) is low enough to make it better at sensing distant earthquakes.

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DIY Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy with a Raspberry Pi Pico

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The global semiconductor shortage has made life tough for anyone using microcontrollers, with lead times now sometimes quoted in years. I wanted to see if I could make it easy and affordable to build a spectrometer. A link to the Web app, along with full build details and PCB files, is available on GitHub.). James Provost.

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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. The heart of the OpenMetBuoy-v2021 ice tracker is the US $400 SparkFun Artemis Global Tracker (AGT). microwatts.

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From Cleaning Offices to Designing EV Charging Stations

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For her contributions to the field, in 2022 she was selected as one of the Top Women in EV by the organizers of the EV Summit , a leading global e-mobility event. He was a DIY enthusiast willing to try his hand at just about anything, from electronics to plumbing. Bekerytė credits her success to following her heart. “Do she says. “So

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