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Looking to get in a hybrid for cheap? Used Toyota Prius 1.5 HSD 2004-2009 Review

Green Car Congress

I knew I wanted something for her that was cheap to maintain, had a reliable automatic transmission, came with cruise control, AC. I knew I wanted something for her that was cheap to maintain, had a reliable automatic transmission, came with cruise control, AC. How did it all start? It was time to buy our first car.

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A DIY E-bike Conversion on the Cheap

Cars That Think

Bluetooth module plugged into the ESC. 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. Fast forward a dozen years. One thing that hasn't really changed, though, is the expense. James Provost.

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Show us your (custom) bus bars!

DIY Electric Car

I'm at the point of my drop in plug-N-play Jeep CJ-7 EVC where I need to interconnect this and that (battery boxes, switches to inverters, inverters to contactors, etc., Who loves custom bus bars?

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This Huge DIY Workbench Gives You a Hand

Cars That Think

I added a DIY solder squid—a block with four flexible arms that I use to hold components in place while soldering—with a concrete base and an automatic solder fume extractor. I normally keep it plugged into a USB port that provides power, but there is also a battery inside for when a USB port isn't available. James Provost.

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DIY Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy with a Raspberry Pi Pico

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So when I decided to build a cheap DIY scintillating gamma spectrometer, it was the natural choice—although I didn’t realize I’d find myself navigating around teething problems of the sort that often affect a first-generation integrated circuit. My interest in gamma-ray spectroscopy came from my physics studies. V the SiPM needs.

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A DIY E-bike Conversion on the Cheap

Cars That Think

Bluetooth module plugged into the ESC. 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. Fast forward a dozen years. One thing that hasn't really changed, though, is the expense. James Provost.

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The Soviet-Era, Z80-based Galaksija Dared to Be Different

Cars That Think

The Galaksija is a Z80 -based, 8-bit DIY machine, cleverly designed so that its bill of materials meshed exactly with what a Yugoslavian was able to import from Western Europe. The picture is one of a landscape littered with uninspired attempts to copy American IBM PCs, British ZX Spectrums , and other Western computers.

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