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Escape Proprietary Smart Home Tech With This DIY Panel

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This handles wireless connections with my sensors, appliances, and other devices. My homebrew devices are connected to the GPIO pins of a Raspberry Pi, which relays their state via Wi-Fi using the MQTT standard protocol for the Internet of Things. Each is fitted with a $20 add-on PoE “hat” to draw power from its Ethernet connection.

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A DIY Tracker Tough Enough for the Arctic

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But it’s a tough environment for scientific instruments. 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. The heart of the OpenMetBuoy-v2021 ice tracker is the US $400 SparkFun Artemis Global Tracker (AGT).

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Creative Greenius is EV Driven

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And we intend to stimulate and grow new connections - a whole lot of them. So you can see that Climate Change , Environment , Standards , Solar and other such terms all relate heavily to Obama according to what people talk about. * In addition to Creative Greenius you’ll find these great EV Driven blogs: DIY Electric Car.

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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 (!). You can expect the Create 3 to take almost whatever you can throw at it—or more importantly, almost whatever can be thrown at it in an educational environment.

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Search for Buried Treasure With This DIY Magnetometer

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I connected this. Short-term stability didn’t quite match what’s advertised in the manufacturer’s literature, perhaps because of electrical noise in the environment, but it’s still very good: With the unit motionless, the values shown remain within a few tens of nanoteslas. It can be purchased. on Amazon for just US $40.

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Build a Passive Radar With Software-Defined Radio

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The Pi is connected to the SDR via a data link, and in turn the SDR is connected via coaxial cables to two directional TV antennas [right and left]. Both the KrakenRF SDR and the Raspberry Pi 4 [middle bottom] require a fair amount of power via USB C cables, so a battery pack [top middle] is needed for mobile operation. James Provost.

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Road Test: 2021 Mazda CX-9 Signature AWD

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The Mazda Connect connectivity system includes Bluetooth, voice recognition, Aha, Pandora and Stitcher radio integration. For even more space, the second row folds flat producing plenty of room for a run to the DIY store or maybe some antiquing. The wireless phone charging was appreciated.

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