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IoT-ize Your Old Gadgets With a Mechanical Hijacking Device

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Or, that was the idea, anyway. 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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Build Your Own Hi-fi Ear Defenders

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Now, after countless versions of wiring things together, and even designing my own audio mixers, I finally have a DIY solution that works within a reasonable budget. My approach was to adapt an idea used in some pass-through systems, placing ambient microphones on the outside of sound-isolating headphones.

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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. We have a good idea of the cause of these oscillations, and we're confident that a few design tweaks can solve the problem. Even more important, it came back down in one piece.

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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 the technology that I needed to make it happen—reliable low-cost communications, cheap screens and processors—didn’t exist yet. So I let the idea catch me. The thermostat chased me for 10 years.

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4 Things to Consider When Installing Your EV Charger

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Unless you’re an experienced electrician or DIY wizard, the idea of installing your own electric vehicle (EV) charger might be daunting. Your charger mediates a high quantity of electricity from your house or apartment building into your car. Where do you begin if this is the first EV charger you ever bought?

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4 Things to Consider When Installing Your EV Charger

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Unless you’re an experienced electrician or DIY wizard, the idea of installing your own electric vehicle (EV) charger might be daunting. Your charger mediates a high quantity of electricity from your house or apartment building into your car. Where do you begin if this is the first EV charger you ever bought?

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Dodge Circuit EV First Drive: electric car makes grand promises on Earth Day

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Subscribe Green News Events Manufacturers Region New Cars Used Cars Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Chrysler , Dodge , AutoblogGreen Exclusive , SAE World Congress Dodge Circuit EV First Drive: electric car makes grand promises on Earth Day by Sebastian Blanco on Apr 22nd 2009 at 7:48PM Two months ago we went for a ride in the Dodge Circuit EV.