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A DIY Electric and Hybrid Car Maintenance Guide

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A DIY Electric and Hybrid Car Maintenance Guide Essential Tools and Tips to Get You Started This article may contain affiliate links. Essential Tools for Electric and Hybrid Car Maintenance Understanding which quality mechanics tools and other essential supplies you need is the first step in DIY maintenance.

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

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And a follow-up to that article, “ A Web-Enabled, High Quality, DIY Audio Amp ” (March 2022), comes in at No. The other four are about exchanging data from distances ranging from a few tens of meters to hundreds of kilometers. Are there trends in DIY projects you think we’re missing? Drop me a line at cass.s@ieee.org

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IoT-ize Your Old Gadgets With a Mechanical Hijacking Device

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Participants installed the IoTIZER on a range of products, including consumer appliances and devices as well as various items around the home, including a recliner and a door lock. Recent technological developments are introducing personal service robots into the home. Well, I can just put it there and check.".

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Energy Harvesting for Wearable Technology Steps Up

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Which seems plenty attractive to a range of companies and researchers. There are, researchers have discovered, a wide range of options to harvest enough microwatts to replace wearables’ batteries. Personalized health care could revolutionize traditional medical practice,” Gao says. In the future, DIY may not even be necessary.

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Build Your Own Hi-fi Ear Defenders

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There are industrial solutions that pass through sounds in specific frequency ranges, but these are targeted at speech. 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.

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Tips: How to Make Money from Your Old Car

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You don’t need a complete vehicle overhaul as a simple DIY quick fix and cleaning can transform a cheap piece into a priceless collector item. Regardless of whether you decide to sell vehicle parts, the entire car, or even lease it out to another person, there are a wide range of approaches to make some additional money from your old vehicle.

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Security With a Spectrometer

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What if it could be used to unlock the phone by scanning, say, one’s skin tone—or rather, personal spectral signature? It would also have to be something I’d consistently have on my person. Now, when the button is pressed, a spectral reading is taken, compared, and if both values are within range, it enters the programmed password. (I

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