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Converting This Mercury Comet Wagon To Electric Should Cost Under $4,000

InsideEVs

The cost includes a Nissan Leaf-compatible EV controller and a crashed donor car and a lot of DIY work.

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Charge like you Volt-to: DIY J1772

DIY Electric Car

For all practical purposes it serves the same purpose as a NEMA L6-30 and costs 5x more. Who is that fooling anyway? I've had a hard time bellying up to the bar of SAE and pulling out my anty in the J1772 game. But if you want to play the game, you gotta pay the man. So I splurged and spent the $110 on one for my birthday.

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Can This DIY Rocket Program Send an Astronaut to Space?

Cars That Think

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. supporters are counting down until the historic day when an amateur astronaut will climb aboard a homemade rocket and wave goodbye to Earth, ready to take a giant leap for DIY-kind.

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Order book opens for Swindon Powertrain’s High Power Density (HPD) EV system

Green Car Congress

Depending on the tire size and top speed requirement, buyers can decide between two no-cost gear ratio options using Swindon Powertrain’s online free to use calculator. Two inverter options, depending on battery voltage, are available though customers can also use their own.

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A DIY E-bike Conversion on the Cheap

Cars That Think

this month's Gizmo column , which each cost thousands of dollars. That got me thinking, how hard would it be, and how much would it cost, to do a simple conversion now? Consider the two e-bikes described in.

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A DIY Tracker Tough Enough for the Arctic

Cars That Think

Unfortunately, the cost of buying instruments commercially severely limited how many trackers we could deploy. 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.

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Escape Proprietary Smart Home Tech With This DIY Panel

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James Provost In fact, I use two Ethernet connections, because I decided to divide the functionality of the control panel across two model 3B+ Raspberry Pis, which cost about US $35 each (a complete bill of materials can be found on my GitHub repository ). One Pi drives a touchscreen display, while the other handles the buttons and LEDs.

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