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Ford unveils Maverick compact hybrid pickup truck starting at less than $20K

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Maverick’s FLEXBED gives customers organization and storage solutions to secure cargo, while accommodating Ford accessories and creative DIY solutions. The whole bed is a DIY fan’s paradise. The build and price website is live at Ford.com and reservations or orders can be placed today.

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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. We have plenty of engineers, as well as people like me, a pricing manager with a skydiving hobby. Even more important, it came back down in one piece.

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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 wanted to see if I could make it easy and affordable to build a spectrometer.

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Hi-fi, Radio, and Retro: The DIY Projects Spectrum Readers Love

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The first thing that jumps out is that Spectrum readers love good quality audio, but unlike some audiophiles, they don’t see an exorbitant price tag or voodoo components as a badge of honor. And a follow-up to that article, “ A Web-Enabled, High Quality, DIY Audio Amp ” (March 2022), comes in at No. Drop me a line at cass.s@ieee.org

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This Huge DIY Workbench Gives You a Hand

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So I decided to build a new workbench. I decided on building a 213-by-107-cm bench. Then I added an eyebolt for my air compressor—a fabulous tool for its roughly US $40 price—to keep it at the ready for blowing off excess material. One that would be better, not just because it was bigger but because it would be smarter.

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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. Being an open-source design no doubt keeps the price of this hardware down: The controller I bought set me back a mere $85. In 2009, I wrote in these pages about my efforts to.

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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. Being an open-source design no doubt keeps the price of this hardware down: The controller I bought set me back a mere $85. In 2009, I wrote in these pages about my efforts to.

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