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Electronically Assisted Astronomy on the Cheap

Cars That Think

Electronically-assisted-astronomy photographs captured with my rig: the moon [top], the sun [middle], and the Orion Nebula [bottom] David Schneider First, I purchased a used Canon T6 DSLR on eBay. My next purchase was a modified gun sight to make it easier to aim the camera. That required a solar filter, of course.

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Cheap Fuel Efficiency: Ten 40 MPG Cars For Under $20,000

Green Car Reports

For many people, the purchase of a fuel efficient car is usually made to save money on driving, as the cost of being a car owner rises further and further. That being the case, why buy an expensive car in the first place, potentially taking years longer to pay off the fuel savings?

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I just bought a super-cheap electric bike from China. It was a bad idea

Electrek

And that’s exactly the story of my latest weird little e-bike purchase. more… The post I just bought a super-cheap electric bike from China. But not the ones with the price tags that make you go, “Honey, how can we afford not to?!” Say hello to the Mihogo Mini, an ultra-low-cost electric bike direct from China.

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A DIY E-bike Conversion on the Cheap

Cars That Think

But I was in a hurry and simply mounted on the handlebars a Drok meter , which I had purchased for an earlier bicycle-based battery-charging project. It would have been possible to have such information displayed on a smartphone, using a. Bluetooth module plugged into the ESC.

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Detect Migrating Birds With a Plastic Dish and a Cheap Microphone

Cars That Think

You could also purchase a 16-inch-diameter one , but the 8-inch dish served me admirably. I found the focal point of this dish through trial and error and ran the output of the preamp into an old Creative Labs Sound Blaster external sound card, which had been collecting dust on my shelf.

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Battery revolution! Has Stellantis cracked the code for super-cheap EVs that will undercut ICE?

EV Central

The global auto giant Stellantis has done a deal with a French battery-maker to secure fresh sodium-ion battery technology for its future EVs that could see electric cars finally undercut petrol cars on purchase price. Has Stellantis cracked the code for super-cheap EVs that will undercut ICE? The post Battery revolution!

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The Dodge Charger Daytona Is Available With A Super-Affordable Lease Deal for Northeastern Buyers Right Now

The Truth About Cars

Dodge is offering lease deals on the car that could make it as cheap as $299 per month. Dodge is offering a $3,000 incentive and zero-percent financing for purchases, which could make them a good deal for some buyers. The deal covers 7,500 miles per year on a two-year lease of a 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T.

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