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Hacking A Car-Radio Chip Into The Ultimate SDR Receiver

Cars That Think

At a time when we all carry smartphones that can stream high-definition movies into our hands, the romance of listening to old-school analog broadcast radio nevertheless endures. During the COVID lockdown of 2020, I started designing a completely open-source tuner that would wring the highest possible performance out of the chip for FM DXers.

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Stuff We Use: Electric Ratchets

The Truth About Cars

Tucking into a DIY job out in the garage can be both a good and bad thing – it only takes one snapped bolt to turn a 30-minute job into a three-day ordeal. Electric ratchets have become a great deal more common in DIY toolboxes over the last few years, thanks in no small part to huge advancements in battery technology. Most definitely.

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Chip Shortage Challenges Maker Manufacturers

Cars That Think

In turn, ideas from the maker community bubble back up into industrial settings, often via engineers seeking quick or inexpensive solutions to problems—consequently both the Raspberry Pi and Arduino lines now feature pro products designed for commercial embedded systems. Anyway, we had some challenges in the most complex designs.

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Henry Samueli and the Rise of Digital Broadband

Cars That Think

If you do, the odds are that the chips inside the modem will have been designed by Broadcom Corp., Their first project was to design the worlds first chips for digital interactive television. A year later, he was moved into a design group that was developing circuit boards for military satellite and radio communications systems.

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Opinion: Cars and Toxic Substances

Clean Fleet Report

This is not an anti-ICE or anti-car story, it’s designed to make sure you are aware of some of the health issues that can arise from car use.]. While driving a car cannot expose you to asbestos, working or repairing a car definitely can. This article may contain affiliate links. [Ed. Careful with brake work.

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This is the most innovative full-suspension electric scooter I’ve ridden in years

Baua Electric

I love getting the chance to see and test new and innovative designs in the world of micromobility, especially since many of the repetitive designs we so often see turn out to be cookie-cutter rehashes of other models. That way folks who enjoy DIYing their own rides can put whatever powertrain into the G16 they’d like.

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Road Test: 2022 Hyundai Santa Cruz Limited AWD

Clean Fleet Report

The LED taillights have an attractive design. Coefficient of Drag (C d ) certainly does have an attention getting design. Sliding behind the wheel reveals a curved dash design that has no physical buttons, switches or toggles. inch high-definition color touchscreen with navigation, and a multi-view front and rear camera system.

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