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Ford unveils Maverick compact hybrid pickup truck starting at less than $20K

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Maverick, which offers ingenious design and storage solutions while enabling customization inside and out, comes with a starting MSRP of $19,995. It features an in-house-designed and manufactured electric traction motor. The whole bed is a DIY fan’s paradise. The Maverick product proposition is like nothing else out there.

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Build a Better DIY Seismometer

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I had initially considered other sorts of DIY seismometers, and I was put off by how large and ungainly they were. My new design is for a horizontal-pendulum seismometer, which contains a pendulum that swings horizontallyor almost so, being inclined just a smidge. Data is stored on a logging board with a real-time clock [bottom].

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A DIY Tracker Tough Enough for the Arctic

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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. James Provost We tested the basic design by deploying a prototype onto the ice in February 2021.

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Hacking A Car-Radio Chip Into The Ultimate SDR Receiver

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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. I also was in contact with a DIY Webshop in the Netherlands, Team AmateurRadioShop.nl , which still sells a kit of an earlier version of the radio.

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

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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. Modern designs typically revolve around the E6 series of ohmic value multipliers —1.0,

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The First Digital Camera Was The Size of a Toaster

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Although the CCDs could capture an image, they couldn’t store it. In a 2016 interview with DIY Photography , he said cassettes were the only permanent form of “digital storage” available to him at the time. He designed it so each tape would store 30 images. The image was then transferred to the cassette.

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Space Campers shares new look inside its Tesla Cybertruck Camper

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Compatibility with the Cybertruck’s battery for accessory add-ons and DIY builds. Its full-camp kitchen, bathroom, shower, and rack accessories were designed to utilize most of the Cybertruck’s space. In the explainer video below, Space Campers offered a look inside and more information on several features and functions.

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