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A DIY Tracker Tough Enough for the Arctic

Cars That Think

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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Toyota, Nissan, Honda and Mitsubishi to provide financial assistance for EV charging infrastructure in Japan

Green Car Congress

Financial assistance will be made available to those businesses and operations that satisfy certain conditions, such as destination charging spots at commercial facilities and lodging facilities, as well as en-route charging spots at service areas and toll-road parking areas, convenience stores on regular roads, and service stations.

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The Further Adventures of The Solangelist

Creative Greenius

People like Sascha Deri of the Alternative Energy Store in Hudson, Massachusetts. But there are people out there who have already done it, so I’ll talk to them first. And there are people out there who want to help and have resources to make it possible.

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The First Digital Camera Was The Size of a Toaster

Cars That Think

And cameras are present in almost every type of environment, including in our own homes.” 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.

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I run my electric tractor completely off-grid. Here’s my secret

Baua Electric

Because it’s electric, I don’t have the major maintenance issues of a diesel tractor, and it’s just a lot nicer to use every day because it’s not loud, smelling of exhaust, or creating an uncomfortably hot working environment on days that are frankly already too hot.

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18650 Battery Specification, Price, Charger, Holder, BMS

Electric Vehicless

BMS Working in six step – Monitoring, Calculating monitored data, Report the data, Protect the data, control environment & balancing. If you want to make you own DIY lithium ion cell & less idea about that than you may read following book for that or check Best book for electric vehicle. Lithium ion 18650 battery pack.

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How I turned a shipping container into a solar off-grid charging station with A/C

Baua Electric

Well, not really cheated, but I just went with a retail solar generator system instead of DIYing that part myself from à la carte components. It also acts as a dehumidifier, which is perhaps even more important to me, as my electric toys are likely just as unhappy about being in a super humid environment as they are about just being hot.