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3D-Printed OLEDs Enable DIY  Screens Nearly Anywhere

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Recent research from the University of Minnesota (UM) Twin Cities describes a “one-pot” 3D-printing platform for flexible OLEDs that overcomes some of the common printing problems and simplifies the manufacturing process. student at the University, now a post-doctoral researcher at MIT’s Computational Design and Fabrication Group.

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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. 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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looking for inwheel hub motors

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Cost & Scalability Even if you nail the engineering, building multiple high-precision motors for each wheel gets extremely expensive. Building your own "special vehicle", building ANY vehicle, always involves some risk. It is a good looking box to house a final university project showcasing the batteries.

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Build a No-Fuss Particle Detector

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in the Physics Institute III B at RWTH Aachen University , and I realized such a detector would help satisfy my teaching obligations while tapping into my interests in physics, electronics, and software design. I’m doing a Ph.D. Fortunately, I didn’t have to start from scratch.

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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. The road to the calorie counter began in our lab (the Human Performance Laboratory in the Stanford University School of Engineering ), where we study things like the metabolic cost of walking.

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IoT-ize Your Old Gadgets With a Mechanical Hijacking Device

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KAIST/Korea Polytechnic University The paper doesn't directly address the cost of the MHD, and with three motors and some other electronics in it, it's not likely to be super cheap. It's also possible to build your own MHD device for cheap , if you know what you're doing.

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Video Friday: Humanoid Soccer

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The robots of Team NimbRo of University of Bonn, Germany, won the main soccer tournament, the Drop-in tournament, and the Technical Challenges. Robotnik ] This video celebrates the 10-year anniversary of the University of Zurich’s Robotics and Perception Group, led by Prof. Be the tiny DIY robot cat you’ve always wanted to be!

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