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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. 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 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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DIY Guide Helps You Build Your Own Electric Car Charging Station

Green Car Reports

Over the past year, electric car charging stations have gone from being overpriced products with extortionate installation costs to items you can pick up at your local hardware store and install yourself.

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Space Campers shares new look inside its Tesla Cybertruck Camper

Teslarati

Compatibility with the Cybertruck’s battery for accessory add-ons and DIY builds. When the Cybertruck’s trailer hitch is closed, the back hatch can store gear, and when it’s opened, the back hatch can double as an outdoor kitchen with space for a drop-in sink and cooking surfaces. You can watch the video below.

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Charge like you Volt-to: DIY J1772

DIY Electric Car

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. 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. It says I pulled 3.51 Pin 4 -->| --[1kw] - Pin 3 (Ground).

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Lowe's: ?Let's Build An Electric Car Charging Station Together?

All Cars Electric

If you’re the kind of person who thinks that a fun weekend consists of redecorating your bathroom, landscaping your garden or perhaps making your own shelving units from scratch, you’re probably familiar with Lowe’s, the Home Improvement Store.

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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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