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

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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?

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Build Your Own Hi-fi Ear Defenders

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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.

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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. 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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Tesla Model 3 pickup “Truckla” gets updates and a perfectly wholesome robot charger

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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.

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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. 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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Build a Passive Radar With Software-Defined Radio

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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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Why battery-as-a-service will drive future of e-mobility | Autocar Professional

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The success of a battery swapping network depends on a couple of key considerations, such as accurate network planning in line with evolving demand density, and the up-front investment needed to build a dense network and achieve optimal utilisation to recover the investment. Here they are.

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