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IoT-ize Your Old Gadgets With a Mechanical Hijacking Device

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But for the vast majority of people, a DIY approach isn't practical, and buying something that works out of the box and comes with a friendly app seems like it would be worth a cost premium. Recent technological developments are introducing personal service robots into the home.

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Chip Shortage Challenges Maker Manufacturers

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Much has been written about how the Great Global Semiconductor Shortage has affected automakers, game console manufacturers, and other companies making commercial products. As the editor responsible for IEEE Spectrum 's Hands On DIY section , it's taken longer and longer each month to find projects incorporating interesting new capabilities.

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A Smart Artificial Pancreas Could Conquer Diabetes

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A person who requires insulin must walk a tightrope. If it falls too low, the person may faint; if it rises too high and stays elevated for too long, the person may go into a coma. Only in 1970 did ambulatory blood-glucose testing become possible; in 1980 it became commercially available.

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The First Digital Camera Was The Size of a Toaster

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Registration is open ; guests can attend in person or virtually. In a 2016 interview with DIY Photography , he said cassettes were the only permanent form of “digital storage” available to him at the time. In 1994 he built one of the first commercially available digital cameras—the AP NC2000 —in collaboration with Nikon.

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Henry Samueli and the Rise of Digital Broadband

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How a DIY radio kit launched Henry Samuelis career Samuelis path toward becoming one of todays key players in digital communications started 33 years ago, when he was a seventh grader. And Samueli himself sees Nicholas as the ideal balance to his laid-back personality. Have you considered commercializing it? Samueli said.

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From Home Brew to Hasbro

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for “Automated Music Personality,” or AMPbot for short. Ted has over 30 years of experience designing and building commercial software applications. After a few trips to China and meeting some fantastic manufacturing experts, and a bunch more work on our part, we finally had the real product ready to go.

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Chrysler unveils new electric minivan for the US Postal Service

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