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A DIY Tracker Tough Enough for the Arctic

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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. With no guarantees on how long any given instrument might last, you have to deploy a lot of them to get the data you need.

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A DIY Calorie Counter More Accurate Than a Smartphone

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The road to the calorie counter began in our lab (the Human Performance Laboratory in the Stanford University School of Engineering ), where we study things like the metabolic cost of walking. The answer is yes—and it's one you can build yourself with parts any maker can easily obtain.

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The First Digital Camera Was The Size of a Toaster

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Photos have become the universal form of casual conversation,” he said in a 2018 interview with The Institute. 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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A Smart Artificial Pancreas Could Conquer Diabetes

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A normally functioning pancreas recognizes the incoming sugar rush and secretes insulin to allow the body's cells to absorb it so that it can be used as energy or stored for such use later on. William Clarke/University of Virginia. In 2007, our group at the University of Virginia proposed using computer-simulation experiments instead.

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Energy Harvesting for Wearable Technology Steps Up

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But we do actually need that energy to be generated,” says Alper Bozkurt, who with Veena Misra codirects the Center for Advanced Self-Powered Systems of Integrated Sensors and Technologies (ASSIST) at North Carolina State University. In the future, DIY may not even be necessary. But solar is just the opening gambit.

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Greenlings: Benefits of charging stations vs. battery swaps vs. home charging

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Also, besides giving you the ability to charge at night when most utility rates are lower, future vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology may allow you to sell some of your stored energy back to the utilities. Currently, there are some industrial facilities that use battery swapping to replenish the energy stores of electric forklifts.