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A DIY Tracker Tough Enough for the Arctic

Cars That Think

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

Cars That Think

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

DIY Electric Car

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! Technically the SAE specification calls for 890 ohms, but that radio store was out of 890 ohms and 1k-ohm appears to do the trick. This all went together in about an hour. It says I pulled 3.51

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The First Digital Camera Was The Size of a Toaster

Cars That Think

Although the CCDs could capture an image, they couldn’t store it. In a 2016 interview with DIY Photography , he said cassettes were the only permanent form of “digital storage” available to him at the time. He designed it so each tape would store 30 images. That didn’t deter Sasson, who continued to build more cameras for Kodak.

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

Green Car Congress

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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2024 Kia Sorento Review

Baua Electric

Adding to the standard equipment list found in the Sorento GT-Line is a digital rear-view mirror – also found in the EV9 – which lets the driver select between a standard mirror or rear-view camera for “maximum rear visibility and safety”. High grade GT-Line variants score a dual 12.3-inch

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2024 Kia Sorento Review

Baua Electric

Adding to the standard equipment list found in the Sorento GT-Line is a digital rear-view mirror – also found in the EV9 – which lets the driver select between a standard mirror or rear-view camera for “maximum rear visibility and safety”. High grade GT-Line variants score a dual 12.3-inch

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