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

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Maverick comes as a standard five-passenger, four-door pickup, with a full-hybrid powertrain and a projected EPA-estimated rating of 40 mpg city fuel economy and 500 miles of range on a single tank of gas. The standard full-hybrid powertrain features a four-cyinder 2.5-liter Ford unveiled the 2022 Ford Maverick compact pickup truck.

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Can This DIY Rocket Program Send an Astronaut to Space?

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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. The trickiest part, the double-curved "throat" section that connects the combustion chamber to the exhaust nozzle, requires computer-controlled machining equipment that we don't have.

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Escape Proprietary Smart Home Tech With This DIY Panel

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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. The heart of my Home Assistant setup is a hub powered by an old PC running Linux.

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This Huge DIY Workbench Gives You a Hand

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Though this space is generous by most standards, it seems I always needed “just a bit" more. 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. James Provost. Then things got more complex.

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A DIY Tracker Tough Enough for the Arctic

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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. Since then we have deployed standard trackers, and gained considerable data on ice movements.

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A DIY Calorie Counter More Accurate Than a Smartphone

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The IMUs are connected to a Raspberry Pi using the I2C protocol. The Pi, running a stock version of the standard operating system , also allowed us to use established Python libraries to do onboard data processing. The counter uses two of them, one attached at midthigh, the other at midshank.

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Creative Greenius is EV Driven

Creative Greenius

And we intend to stimulate and grow new connections - a whole lot of them. So you can see that Climate Change , Environment , Standards , Solar and other such terms all relate heavily to Obama according to what people talk about. * In addition to Creative Greenius you’ll find these great EV Driven blogs: DIY Electric Car.

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