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DEED advertising pays off

Electric Auto Association

We had a few donations from the community, but most of our funds came from a $3000 grant from Electrify America’s Normal Now.” A significant portion of the grant money went to printing 23,000 inserts that went out with city utility bills, with one side in English and one side in Spanish, Atherton explained.

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Energy Harvesting for Wearable Technology Steps Up

Cars That Think

Energy is something we take for granted, because we just plug things into the wall, and it feels as inevitable as air. In the future, DIY may not even be necessary. And today, technology is maturing to the point that meaningful amounts of these energy giveaways can be harvested to liberate wearables from ever needing a battery.

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The First Digital Camera Was The Size of a Toaster

Cars That Think

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

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Security With a Spectrometer

Cars That Think

If the spectrum matched that of a previously registered object, the Teensy would then automatically “type” my password, granting access to the computer. It would then read and parse the output from the spectrometer. microcontroller, an activation button, and a breadboard and jumper wires.

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4 Things to Consider When Installing Your EV Charger

Wallbox

Unless you’re an experienced electrician or DIY wizard, the idea of installing your own electric vehicle (EV) charger might be daunting. Save money on the EV charging station installation with grants. Where do you begin if this is the first EV charger you ever bought? Is it possible to install it yourself?

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4 Things to Consider When Installing Your EV Charger

Wallbox

Unless you’re an experienced electrician or DIY wizard, the idea of installing your own electric vehicle (EV) charger might be daunting. Save money on the EV charging station installation with grants. Where do you begin if this is the first EV charger you ever bought? Is it possible to install it yourself?

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Andrew Leland on Assistive Tech for the Blind

Cars That Think

But if you had asked me that question in the 1960s or 70s, my answer would be completely different because then I might have had to write the book longhand with a really big magic marker and fill up hundreds of notebooks with giant print—basically making my own DIY 30-point font instead of having it on my computer.