Building Cheap DIY 
Cars That Think
AUGUST 20, 2021
At the time, e-bikes were still rather exotic, at least in the United States, so it seemed worth the expense and effort to build my own. In 2009, I wrote in these pages about my efforts to. add an electric motor to a bicycle —a project that involved a considerable outlay of money and many hours in a machine shop behind a lathe.
Cars That Think
NOVEMBER 28, 2021
That successful mission in August 2018 was a huge step toward our goal of sending an amateur astronaut to the edge of space aboard one of our DIY rockets. We're now building the. We'll soon commence building a full-scale BPM100 engine, which will ultimately incorporate a new guidance system for the rocket. Carsten Olsen.
Cars That Think
JUNE 22, 2022
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. I wanted to see if I could make it easy and affordable to build a spectrometer.
Cars That Think
NOVEMBER 23, 2022
Far and away our most popular article in the last five years has been “ Build Your Own Professional-Grade Audio Amp on the Sort of Cheap ” (November 2018). And a follow-up to that article, “ A Web-Enabled, High Quality, DIY Audio Amp ” (March 2022), comes in at No. Are there trends in DIY projects you think we’re missing?
Cars That Think
AUGUST 20, 2021
At the time, e-bikes were still rather exotic, at least in the United States, so it seemed worth the expense and effort to build my own. In 2009, I wrote in these pages about my efforts to. add an electric motor to a bicycle —a project that involved a considerable outlay of money and many hours in a machine shop behind a lathe.
Cars That Think
JULY 21, 2021
So I decided to build a new workbench. I decided on building a 213-by-107-cm bench. I added a DIY solder squid—a block with four flexible arms that I use to hold components in place while soldering—with a concrete base and an automatic solder fume extractor. A bench that could automatically assist me in getting things done!
Cars That Think
NOVEMBER 26, 2023
Now, after countless versions of wiring things together, and even designing my own audio mixers, I finally have a DIY solution that works within a reasonable budget. I was on the hunt for another cheap small MEMS mic that could handle louder sound sources. I found the Vesper VM2020 , with an impressive AOP of 149 dB!
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