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Ford unveils Maverick compact hybrid pickup truck starting at less than $20K

Green Car Congress

Maverick, which offers ingenious design and storage solutions while enabling customization inside and out, comes with a starting MSRP of $19,995. It features an in-house-designed and manufactured electric traction motor. The whole bed is a DIY fan’s paradise. The Maverick product proposition is like nothing else out there.

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Can This DIY Rocket Program Send an Astronaut to Space?

Cars That Think

meter-tall Nexø II rocket was powered by a bipropellant engine designed and constructed by the Copenhagen Suborbitals team. 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. Even more important, it came back down in one piece.

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Escape Proprietary Smart Home Tech With This DIY Panel

Cars That Think

So they became my North Star for this design. This handles wireless connections with my sensors, appliances, and other devices. My homebrew devices are connected to the GPIO pins of a Raspberry Pi, which relays their state via Wi-Fi using the MQTT standard protocol for the Internet of Things.

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A DIY E-bike Conversion on the Cheap

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It uses an "outrunner" motor designed for electric skateboards. motor designed for electric skateboards for $88 and fashioned a mount for it out of a few pieces of scrap aluminum. Being an open-source design no doubt keeps the price of this hardware down: The controller I bought set me back a mere $85. So I bought an outrunner.

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A Web-Enabled, High Quality, DIY Audio Amp

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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. To this board I also connected a tap along with a low-pass filter and output—just in case I decide to build my own subwoofer speaker!

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A DIY Tracker Tough Enough for the Arctic

Cars That Think

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. James Provost We tested the basic design by deploying a prototype onto the ice in February 2021.

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This DIY electric parade float chassis could be any vehicle you want it to be

Electrek

It seems like every new electric vehicle unveiling now starts with showing off a new ‘skateboard’ design , or the chassis of the vehicle that houses everything it needs to make it run. The engineer in me always thought it’d be fun to have just the bare skateboard, meaning you could go wild with your ideas of what to put on top.

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