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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. Since then we have deployed standard trackers, and gained considerable data on ice movements.

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A DIY Calorie Counter More Accurate Than a Smartphone

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The answer is yes—and it's one you can build yourself with parts any maker can easily obtain. With all of this data we looked at building a fundamental relationship between the movement of the body (and thus the activity of the muscles burning calories) and the actual energy expended by the whole body.

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Charge like you Volt-to: DIY J1772

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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! So with a little wire, some basic skills and one stupidly expensive receptacle, you can build a J1772 to NEMA L6-30R adapter for yourself. This all went together in about an hour.

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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'll soon commence building a full-scale BPM100 engine, which will ultimately incorporate a new guidance system for the rocket. 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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Ford unveils Maverick compact hybrid pickup truck starting at less than $20K

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Maverick comes as a standard five-passenger, four-door pickup, with a full-hybrid powertrain and a projected EPA-estimated rating of 40 mpg city fuel economy and 500 miles of range on a single tank of gas. The standard full-hybrid powertrain features a four-cyinder 2.5-liter Ford unveiled the 2022 Ford Maverick compact pickup truck.

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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. That didn’t deter Sasson, who continued to build more cameras for Kodak.

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