Building Connected DIY 
Green Car Congress
JUNE 9, 2021
Maverick has standard FordPass Connect with embedded modem and Wi-Fi for up to 10 devices, while standard FordPass makes it easy to find the truck, check fuel level, lock and unlock the doors, and start or turn off the vehicle—all from a phone. The whole bed is a DIY fan’s paradise. The 2022 Ford Maverick goes on sale this fall.
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
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
MARCH 24, 2022
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.
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. The handlebar-mounted controls connect with an Arduino, which interprets their settings and translates them into a PPM signal, which is applied to the electronic speed controller.
Cars That Think
FEBRUARY 25, 2022
And I’d already built my own speakers, so why not build it myself? November 2018 Hands On article, “DIY Pro Audio ” in IEEE Spectrum , and it convinced me it was possible, although I wanted to go beyond just a power amplifier to something more like my lamented Sansui. Researching home-brew audio sites, I came across Glenn Zorpette’s.
Cars That Think
APRIL 26, 2022
The notion of being led to a hidden object by virtue of the magnetic anomaly it creates must have really intrigued my 9-year-old self, because a decade after seeing that movie I decided to build a circuit to measure the strength of Earth’s magnetic field. I connected this. And that was the only hard-to-obtain item I needed.
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