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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. With no guarantees on how long any given instrument might last, you have to deploy a lot of them to get the data you need.

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A DIY E-bike Conversion on the Cheap

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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. It would have been possible to have such information displayed on a smartphone, using a. In 2009, I wrote in these pages about my efforts to. Fast forward a dozen years.

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A DIY E-bike Conversion on the Cheap

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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. It would have been possible to have such information displayed on a smartphone, using a. In 2009, I wrote in these pages about my efforts to. Fast forward a dozen years.

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Our Hands-On Citizen-Scientist

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As he prepares to leave Spectrum to pursue more writing and assorted other projects, I asked Schneider to survey his DIY oeuvre and choose some highlights. Schneider’s training and experience as a geophysicist has informed not only his Hands On projects but also the hundreds of articles he has reported or edited over the years.

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Space Campers shares new look inside its Tesla Cybertruck Camper

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Compatibility with the Cybertruck’s battery for accessory add-ons and DIY builds. In the explainer video below, Space Campers offered a look inside and more information on several features and functions. A Murphy-style bed that sleeps two and flips up for 8 feet of standing room.

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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. MicroAPRS , which is an open-source and Arduino-compatible firmware package for DIY packet radio modems. I thought about building it around a Raspberry Pi. I started learning about the many different types of. right now.

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DIY Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy with a Raspberry Pi Pico

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So when I decided to build a cheap DIY scintillating gamma spectrometer, it was the natural choice—although I didn’t realize I’d find myself navigating around teething problems of the sort that often affect a first-generation integrated circuit. I find it fascinating that you can get so much information out of a single device.

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