article thumbnail

Hi-fi, Radio, and Retro: The DIY Projects Spectrum Readers Love

Cars That Think

And a follow-up to that article, “ A Web-Enabled, High Quality, DIY Audio Amp ” (March 2022), comes in at No. Are there trends in DIY projects you think we’re missing? Far and away our most popular article in the last five years has been “ Build Your Own Professional-Grade Audio Amp on the Sort of Cheap ” (November 2018).

DIY 78
article thumbnail

From Cleaning Offices to Designing EV Charging Stations

Cars That Think

Greta Bekerytė started out cleaning offices and ended up designing electronics for EV charging stations. He was a DIY enthusiast willing to try his hand at just about anything, from electronics to plumbing. I always knew I wanted to be a specialist: a person that others would go to because they knew something really well,” she says.

Clean 100
article thumbnail

IoT-ize Your Old Gadgets With a Mechanical Hijacking Device

Cars That Think

It's not hard to turn them on and off with a connected socket adapter of some sort, but as you start to go back more than a few years, things become increasingly designed for direct human interaction rather than for the Internet, with buttons and switches and dials and whatnot. Or, that was the idea, anyway.

DIY 138
article thumbnail

Energy Harvesting for Wearable Technology Steps Up

Cars That Think

Personalized health care could revolutionize traditional medical practice,” Gao says. But to incorporate many different types of sensors, we need different material designs and tools. This second-generation e-skin sandwiched thin sheets of Teflon, copper, and polyimide that slide as the person moves, generating maximum power of 0.94

Energy 136
article thumbnail

Build Your Own Hi-fi Ear Defenders

Cars That Think

For years, I have been trying to improve my personal audio-monitoring situation without going to the expense of the systems used by professional touring bands, which include custom-molded earpieces. The WM8960 has a quieter initial gain stage that’s designed for microphones. It was for the audio codec chip by Wolfson, the $18 WM8960.

Building 119
article thumbnail

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.]. Exposure to CO for about 3-5 hours can kill a person. The family of the asbestos-exposed person could also be affected, which increases the severity of the problem. Asbestos Exposure.

Cars 78
article thumbnail

Ukrainian Volunteers Use 3D Printers to Save Lives

Cars That Think

Thanks to these communication systems and volunteer centers, it was possible to supply personal protective equipment (like face shields ) for physicians and social workers. 3D Tech ADDtive Other volunteers also joined the modernization and implementation of computer-aided designs with publicly available 3D models for printing.

Ukraine 145