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A DIY Tracker Tough Enough for the Arctic

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Gaining that understanding is part of my job at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute , and trackers placed directly onto ice floes are some of our best tools for getting data. Since then we have deployed standard trackers, and gained considerable data on ice movements. But it’s a tough environment for scientific instruments.

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A DIY Calorie Counter More Accurate Than a Smartphone

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Even without the lockdowns, many parts of the world have been facing an obesity epidemic, which has created a need to help people manage their weight. The answer is yes—and it's one you can build yourself with parts any maker can easily obtain. A subject drinks water containing deuterium and oxygen-18.

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Charge like you Volt-to: DIY J1772

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I placed all the spacers and parts together so I wouldn't have to do anything twice. If you want all the benefits of this great and robust power standard, google other projects, I skipped all those subtleties and got'r'done! I tin'd the lugs with a small torch, stripped the wire leads and tin'd them so they wouldn't spread in the lug.

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Can This DIY Rocket Program Send an Astronaut to Space?

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That successful mission in August 2018 was a huge step toward our goal of sending an amateur astronaut to the edge of space aboard one of our DIY rockets. We're now building the. While our boats were in international waters , Sweden ha s oversight of the airspace above that part of the Baltic Sea.) Carsten Olsen.

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iRobot Launches Create 3, with ROS 2 Built In

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It’s a little scary to recall that when iRobot last released an update to the Create DIY/educational robot platform, the calendar read 2014 (!). What's more, Create 3 brings a variety of new functionalities to users, including compatibility with ROS 2, an industry-standard software for roboticists worldwide. The first reason is cost.

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The First Digital Camera Was The Size of a Toaster

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In a 2016 interview with DIY Photography , he said cassettes were the only permanent form of “digital storage” available to him at the time. To build his digital camera, Sasson scavenged a lens and an exposure mechanism from a Kodak XL55 movie camera. Enclosed in an open steel frame, all of the parts could be seen.

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Creative Greenius is EV Driven

Creative Greenius

So you can see that Climate Change , Environment , Standards , Solar and other such terms all relate heavily to Obama according to what people talk about. * President Obama: Days of Building Sprawl Are Over. I am both humbled and flattered to be part of this impressive network of people who all focus on the EV topic.

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