Electrek

AUGUST 25, 2022

DIY solar power projects have always been fascinating to me. And since electric bikes have always been a huge part of my life, combining the two has always seemed inevitable. And so with a pair of solar panels and one afternoon to kill, I rigged up a simple solar-powered electric bicycle setup that is easy to build.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Even without the lockdowns, many parts of the world have been facing an obesity epidemic, which has created a need to help people manage their weight. The answer is yes—and it's one you can build yourself with parts any maker can easily obtain.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2009

Building materials retailer Grange Builders Providers, of Baldoyle, Dublin, has purchased a Smith Newton truck for deliveries of building and DIY products. Offaly, Electric Vehicles Ireland sells the full range of Smith commercial electric vehicles and also provides product support and spare parts. Based in Tullamore, Co.

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DIY Electric Car

MARCH 22, 2021

I feel like the old build thread had a lot of pre-amble before I even got to any building, so I am going to start a fresh topic. 1996 chevy s-10 conversion (part 2). After a long summer break, it is time to get back to my project. For anyone who has not been following along, I thought I would summarize the progress to date.

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DIY Electric Car

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

Hello DIY'ers, The Exploratorium in the San Francisco is looking for someone who'd like to show off their DIY Electric Car for one night on October 7th as part of our monthly After Dark series. As it turns out, the Exploratorium was born out of the DIY spirit. The setting will be informal.no Thanks so much for time.I

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

President Obama: Days of Building Sprawl Are Over. I am both humbled and flattered to be part of this impressive network of people who all focus on the EV topic. In addition to Creative Greenius you’ll find these great EV Driven blogs: DIY Electric Car. The top of the page has the latest posts. Obama on cars.

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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 only part I needed to fabricate was an aluminum mounting bracket for the motor [shown in outline]. The most challenging part of this project was figuring out how to configure the ESC.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

For folks like me though, a big part of the charm is the thrill that comes from pulling in a signal from thousands of kilometers away—and doing it the time-honored way: with an understanding of atmospheric conditions, antennas, and electronics. My enthusiasm grew when I found TEF6686 tuner modules on AliExpress.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 23, 2024

With one of these, I could build my own clock for around US $200—and one that’s about 200 times as accurate as a typical quartz clock. Indeed, creating the PCB so this was possible was probably the most challenging part of the whole process. Temperature changes are the biggest source of error in conventional crystal oscillators.

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Cars That Think

JULY 30, 2021

Part of the project involved putting some prototypes in the homes of potential users. It's also possible to build your own MHD device for cheap , if you know what you're doing. Or, that was the idea, anyway. As of right now, IoTIZER is a research-through-design project from KAIST in Korea.

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DIY Electric Car

JULY 14, 2010

If money is tight and you have the room you can stretch the conversion out even further and like everything else things (parts and pieces) will come your way, just think positive. The way I see it, if you're gonna build a time machine into a car, why not do it with some style? s your dream car. t listen to the dream swishers.

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The Truth About Cars

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Tucking into a DIY job out in the garage can be both a good and bad thing – it only takes one snapped bolt to turn a 30-minute job into a three-day ordeal. Electric ratchets have become a great deal more common in DIY toolboxes over the last few years, thanks in no small part to huge advancements in battery technology.

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The Truth About Cars

JULY 3, 2024

The entire powertrain had presumably been converted as part of his building it into a time machine. Owners will probably tailor the looks to their tastes but the parts provided by the company all look like they could have come straight from the DMC factory in the 1980s, assuming EVs had been a thing during that period.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 5, 2022

It’s a little scary to recall that when iRobot last released an update to the Create DIY/educational robot platform, the calendar read 2014 (!). But it’s absolutely true that Create 3 will be an integral part of TB4, in the same way that the Kobuki base was an integral part of the TurtleBot 2. I think there are two reasons.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Be the tiny DIY robot cat you’ve always wanted to be! Paper ] Building tiny giant robots requires lots of little fixtures, and I’m here for it. Gundam Factory ] The load-bearing assessment that’s part of this research is particularly cool. Swiss-Mile ] Thanks, Marko! at the link below. Petoi ] Thanks, Rz!

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DIY Electric Car

JUNE 26, 2010

Here are a few strict guide lines that I follow to ensure a happy and productive partnership of parts. When I told people at work that I was building a electric car I received 20 Deka Unigy 45 ah deep cycle batteries (retail $3000) for free as they were swapping out old ups batteries from a back up system. total $14,600). -1

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

I started indulging in my hobby of building robots, and subsequently met up with other like-minded people at the Silicon Valley Home Brew Robotics Club. Robot-suitable mechanical parts were hard to come by, but combat robot parts were more readily available due to their popularity on TV at the time. Then came the hard part.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 21, 2023

He was a DIY enthusiast willing to try his hand at just about anything, from electronics to plumbing. The course was demanding, particularly since she was still working part time. The job entails building devices in the lab and running testing and verification programs. “It she says. “So She accepted the offer.

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DIY Electric Car

MARCH 22, 2021

Build progress. 3D printed parts are in hand, look great. Only issue is the dimensions are slight smaller due to ABS shrinkage. So I'm having to bore and smooth the cell connections out, and slightly enlarge the copper plate paths. Certainly not show stoppers by any means. FDM 3D printing is somewhat of an art vs CNC.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 6, 2022

In a 2016 interview with DIY Photography , he said cassettes were the only permanent form of “digital storage” available to him at the time. To build his digital camera, Sasson scavenged a lens and an exposure mechanism from a Kodak XL55 movie camera. Enclosed in an open steel frame, all of the parts could be seen.

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Green Authority

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Electric skateboards, which look like your typical deck but are equipped with electric motors, are a growing part of the mix. However, if you love skateboarding and thought of how to convert a skateboard to electric, there are DIY electric skateboard conversion kits available in the market today. Vestar E-Skateboard DIY Kit.

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Cars That Think

MAY 7, 2022

For most of the 10 years that I idly thought about thermostats, I had no intention of building one. Adapted from the book BUILD: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making by Tony Fadell. A year later we decided to build a new, superefficient house in Tahoe. But making the thermometer beautiful would be the easy part.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 13, 2024

For power, I guess you run your throttle back to the new controller, though that’s another reason just to start this build from scratch. I feel like any self-respecting DIY electric snowmobile should cost significantly more than this. That’s kind of where I’m sitting with this DIY snowmobile kit. But hey, I’ll try anything once!

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DIY Electric Car

MARCH 10, 2012

However I have been busy buying parts and I building myslef a lab power supply for a old computer ATX power supply which I had lying around. Had to replace the lower control arm on my Volvo V70xc. What a pain that is? Also have to replace outer tie rod end on my Volvo XC90. This a link as to how to do it.

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Clean Fleet Report

JULY 19, 2023

Embrace your curiosity and delve into understanding the various parts and functions of your vehicle, as it is an investment that will bring significant benefits in the long run. Furthermore, regular oil changes assist in maintaining the cleanliness of the engine by preventing the build-up of dirt and particles.

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DIY Electric Car

NOVEMBER 16, 2013

She love to hunt, and fish, but as her decease has progressed it has become increasingly more difficult for her to take part in these activities. My first attempt at building her an off-road vehicle was adding larger tires for ground clearance to an older Invacare Flyer handicap scooter. Golf cart motor ? Forklift motor?

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DIY Electric Car

OCTOBER 11, 2012

If I were to use the Lithium Iron Phosphate batteries, I would need only to build a 40km range, as these can discharge down to 20%. this is an important decison, and one I can make only once I've decided on the other parts, because the gross vehicle weight of the car once all the parts are in (and the passengers) cannot be exceeded.

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DIY Electric Car

OCTOBER 1, 2013

this was part of waterproofing the engine bay) The car turns heads at every intersection, and people stop me in the parking lot to ask about the "Electric" emblems on the car. I tried to build the car in such a way that every component was easily accessible and visible. She has even given me a few tips on driving it.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 12, 2022

The kits teach elementary school pupils what engineers do, as well as how to code, build robots, design video games, and create animations. “We In the First Robotics competitions, student teams design, program, and build robots. At Maker Faire conventions, people engage in hands-on DIY and STEM activities.

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Electric Vehicless

SEPTEMBER 6, 2020

If you are a techie than you have to select individual parts & assemble it but if you do not know much about parts you have to go with electric bike conversion kit & in kit all parts, design & test for smooth run of bicycle. Motor is the part that rotates the tyre through energy use from the battery pack.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

If you ask the biggest danger to a firefighter, most envision being trapped in a burning or collapsing building. A DIY Solution. Simply put, the problem of drivers not following SDMO laws is so real and deadly that emergency responders are DIY-ing a solution themselves — because they cannot count on anyone else. .

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Electric Vehicless

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

If you are a techie than you have to select individual parts & assemble it but if you do not know much about parts you have to go with electric bike conversion kit & in kit all parts, design & test for smooth run of bicycle. Motor is the part that rotates the tyre through energy use from the battery pack.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 26, 2024

Well, not really cheated, but I just went with a retail solar generator system instead of DIYing that part myself from à la carte components. I used pressure-treated 2x4s to build a pair of mounts for the solar panels, each of which would hold three 200W panels. To be fair, I cheated a bit.

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Electric Auto Association

JANUARY 5, 2023

Much earlier in the chapter’s history, member Otmar Ebenhoech, who would go on to create the Villa DC Motor Controller, made a strong impression on the DIY community using DC motors. He has a lot of credits to his name, including recommending the double-paned windows on New York’s Empire State Building. It’s very cool."

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

Chrysler isnt the first to realize that building an EV off of a Lotus platform makes for an incredibly fast and fun experience (see also: Tesla Roadster ) We escaped from the dark confines of Cobo Hall onto a decently sunny day and cruised along the river and past the Ren Cen, gunning the Circuit whenever possible. No coasting available.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 20, 2009

Neutral Big Papi @ Apr 20th 2009 10:05AM All - The end of the plug that you see is the end that plugs into the car not the part that would plug into the wall. I imagine there will be tax incentives to build green generators when were at that stage. @ Apr 20th 2009 12:34AM They just wont use different plug.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

It is thought that the cars that Renault is building to function with the Better Place model will have the ability to have its power supply swapped and the newly announced Tesla Model S is said to also incorporate this concept. You could sit in your vehicle while the operation takes place. Hey, maybe you got an email during the drive, right?

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