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IoT-ize Your Old Gadgets With a Mechanical Hijacking Device

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Connectivity usually comes at a premium, and it also usually involves buying a brand new whatever it is, because new hardware and software and services are required. IoTIZER is a prototype of a mechanical hijacking device (MHD), designed to replace human manipulation of existing products. Whether or not every device you own actually.

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Can This DIY Rocket Program Send an Astronaut to Space?

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That successful mission in August 2018 was a huge step toward our goal of sending an amateur astronaut to the edge of space aboard one of our DIY rockets. The Spica astronaut's 15-minute ride to the stars will be the product of more than two decades of work. Even more important, it came back down in one piece. We're now building the.

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Smith Electric Vehicles Delivers First Battery-Electric Truck into Ireland

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Building materials retailer Grange Builders Providers, of Baldoyle, Dublin, has purchased a Smith Newton truck for deliveries of building and DIY products. Offaly, Electric Vehicles Ireland sells the full range of Smith commercial electric vehicles and also provides product support and spare parts. Based in Tullamore, Co.

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A Web-Enabled, High Quality, DIY Audio Amp

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November 2018 Hands On article, “DIY Pro Audio ” in IEEE Spectrum , and it convinced me it was possible, although I wanted to go beyond just a power amplifier to something more like my lamented Sansui. In commercial product development, an optimized microcontroller would be the way to go, but for my DIY project, a Pi was perfect.

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iRobot Launches Create 3, with ROS 2 Built In

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It’s a little scary to recall that when iRobot last released an update to the Create DIY/educational robot platform, the calendar read 2014 (!). For more details on the Create 3, we spoke with Charlotte Redman, iRobot's product manager, and Steven Shamlian, principal electrical engineer. That's my suspicion.

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Tony Fadell: The Nest Thermostat Disrupted My Life

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If you’ve got an idea for a business or a new product, you usually don’t have to wait a decade to make sure it’s worth doing. But to make this product successful—and meaningful—we needed to solve two big problems: It needed to save energy. This needed to be an easy DIY project, a quick upgrade. We’d honed those skills at Apple.

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

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The Maverick product proposition is like nothing else out there. Maverick’s FLEXBED gives customers organization and storage solutions to secure cargo, while accommodating Ford accessories and creative DIY solutions. The whole bed is a DIY fan’s paradise.

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