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A DIY Tracker Tough Enough for the Arctic

Cars That Think

Gaining that understanding is part of my job at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute , and trackers placed directly onto ice floes are some of our best tools for getting data. A better understanding of this zone is crucial to both improving short-term weather and navigation forecasts as well as long-term climate models.

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A DIY Calorie Counter More Accurate Than a Smartphone

Cars That Think

Even without the lockdowns, many parts of the world have been facing an obesity epidemic, which has created a need to help people manage their weight. The answer is yes—and it's one you can build yourself with parts any maker can easily obtain. We broke out every possible sensor we had in the lab and attached them to participants.

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Charge like you Volt-to: DIY J1772

DIY Electric Car

I placed all the spacers and parts together so I wouldn't have to do anything twice. Technically the SAE specification calls for 890 ohms, but that radio store was out of 890 ohms and 1k-ohm appears to do the trick. I tin'd the lugs with a small torch, stripped the wire leads and tin'd them so they wouldn't spread in the lug.

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The First Digital Camera Was The Size of a Toaster

Cars That Think

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. Enclosed in an open steel frame, all of the parts could be seen.

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

Green Car Congress

By assisting installers with the part of their costs not covered by government subsidies, the four companies intend to promote wider availability of chargers to make electric vehicle use more convenient. Large-scale retail stores. Large-scale shopping malls, DIY stores, etc. Convenience stores.

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Green Cars Part 4- Compressed Air

DIY Electric Car

Conventional cars work by exploding fuel and air in a chamber to exert force on the pistons, but what if rather than using an explosion to provide that pressure on the piston, you just stored your ‘fuel’ at a constant high pressure. That’s the concept behind the air car , and it looks like a pretty promising technology.

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Electric Bike Conversion Kit Selection

Electric Vehicless

If you are a techie than you have to select individual parts & assemble it but if you do not know much about parts you have to go with electric bike conversion kit & in kit all parts, design & test for smooth run of bicycle. Motor is the part that rotates the tyre through energy use from the battery pack.

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