Building DIY Tech 
Cars That Think
NOVEMBER 23, 2022
Far and away our most popular article in the last five years has been “ Build Your Own Professional-Grade Audio Amp on the Sort of Cheap ” (November 2018). And a follow-up to that article, “ A Web-Enabled, High Quality, DIY Audio Amp ” (March 2022), comes in at No. Are there trends in DIY projects you think we’re missing?
Cars That Think
AUGUST 20, 2021
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. In 2009, I wrote in these pages about my efforts to. add an electric motor to a bicycle —a project that involved a considerable outlay of money and many hours in a machine shop behind a lathe.
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Cars That Think
JANUARY 26, 2022
The group's print-your-own-display tech could even ultimately enable homemade holograms—though, he says, further innovations in the hardware would be necessary first. “The pixels can be conformally printed on curved surfaces to integrate with daily objects in the era of Internet of Things….
Cars That Think
NOVEMBER 26, 2023
But this tech gets you only so far: Noise cancellation works just for relatively low frequencies, and the overall hearing protection that earbuds can offer is also relatively limited. Earplugs or over-the-ear defenders are an option, but they block wanted as well as unwanted sounds.
Cars That Think
AUGUST 20, 2021
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. In 2009, I wrote in these pages about my efforts to. add an electric motor to a bicycle —a project that involved a considerable outlay of money and many hours in a machine shop behind a lathe.
Teslarati
MARCH 31, 2023
Back in 2019, YouTuber Simone Giertz, the self-proclaimed “Queen of Sh*tty Robots,” created a one-off Tesla Model 3 build that took the automotive world by storm. Teslas are very tech-heavy vehicles, so projects like Giertz’s Truckla are always remarkable.
Cars That Think
OCTOBER 25, 2022
Building off the demand stimulated by this activity, a number of manufacturers have started making premium, but still relatively cheap, SDRs. But it was the KrakenSDR’s ability to do passive radar that really caught my eye as a new capability in lowish-cost radio tech , so I plonked down the money. James Provost.
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