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A DIY E-bike Conversion on the Cheap

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Bluetooth module plugged into the ESC. My first test ride convinced me that I needed some quantitative feedback about what the motor was doing. It would have been possible to have such information displayed on a smartphone, using a.

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A DIY E-bike Conversion on the Cheap

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Bluetooth module plugged into the ESC. My first test ride convinced me that I needed some quantitative feedback about what the motor was doing. It would have been possible to have such information displayed on a smartphone, using a.

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Uno Minda gears up for anticipated aftermarket parts boom  | Autocar Professional

Baua Electric

Uno Minda boasts a comprehensive EV portfolio, encompassing battery management systems, chargers, cables, control modules, plugs, telematics, and more. The picture is similar in the passenger vehicle and commercial vehicle segments, with EV-specific components garnering Rs 263 crore in peak annual orders.

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Charge like you Volt-to: DIY J1772

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I started by chopping off 12" from my home 220v system (plug and all). So I splurged and spent the $110 on one for my birthday. It arrived yesterday (Friday) and I spent this morning wiring up my adapter. I use heavy duty 3 x 6ga rubberized cable. The J1772 I have came with solder lug/pins (one end is a lug, the other is the pin).

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Detect Quakes With “Raspberry Shakes”

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Searching the interwebs, I found no shortage of leads about how to build a DIY seismometer. The problem is that the DIY seismometer designs I was seeing were large and ungainly contraptions. This consists of a geophone and a sensor board that plugs into a Raspberry Pi. I recently decided that I needed to give this a try.

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Hacking Ham Radio for Texting

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MicroAPRS , which is an open-source and Arduino-compatible firmware package for DIY packet radio modems. The PCB plugs into an Arduino Mega [middle right], a GPS antenna [top left], a mini keyboard [bottom middle], and batteries [bottom right]. NEO 6M-based GPS receiver that is popular with hobbyists for things such as DIY drones.

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DIY Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy with a Raspberry Pi Pico

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So when I decided to build a cheap DIY scintillating gamma spectrometer, it was the natural choice—although I didn’t realize I’d find myself navigating around teething problems of the sort that often affect a first-generation integrated circuit. This article appears in the July 2022 print issue as “DIY Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy.”.

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