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Hi-fi, Radio, and Retro: The DIY Projects Spectrum Readers Love

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And a follow-up to that article, “ A Web-Enabled, High Quality, DIY Audio Amp ” (March 2022), comes in at No. The remaining articles are a potpourri of topics, but I think they all share that magic element of unexpected delight that engineers are always hoping for. Are there trends in DIY projects you think we’re missing?

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From Cleaning Offices to Designing EV Charging Stations

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Greta Bekerytė started out cleaning offices and ended up designing electronics for EV charging stations. Today she works as a hardware engineer at Zaptec , which makes electric-vehicle charging stations and is also based in Stavanger. It’s amazing what you can accomplish in your career when you follow your dreams. It wasn’t easy.

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Chip Shortage Challenges Maker Manufacturers

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In turn, ideas from the maker community bubble back up into industrial settings, often via engineers seeking quick or inexpensive solutions to problems—consequently both the Raspberry Pi and Arduino lines now feature pro products designed for commercial embedded systems. Anyway, we had some challenges in the most complex designs.

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This New Site

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IEEE New Initiatives Committee , we've designed an experience around IEEE members both current and future. For this new site design we were fortunate to work with the artists at Pentagram , who were also responsible for the recent redesign of our print edition. Spectrum on a monthly basis. So with the generous support of the.

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Road Test: 2024 Ford Maverick Lariat FWD Hybrid

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Liter gasoline engine that produces 162 horsepower (hp) and a 94kW electric motor, for a total system 191 hp. The gasoline engine’s 155 pound-feet of torque (lb.-ft.) Pushing the start button does not turn on the engine, unless you are in extremely hot or cold weather and have the heater or A/C on. Your numbers may differ.

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Road Test: 2022 Ford Maverick XL FWD EcoBoost

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Ford not only brought back its compact pickup, which some thought was a gamble, but the Maverick comes standard with a hybrid engine. EcoBoost engine and the 8-speed automatic transmission. All-wheel drive (AWD) is an option with this engine, but not so with the base hybrid engine. You can take it with you.

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A Smart Artificial Pancreas Could Conquer Diabetes

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Peter Kovatchev was a naval engineer who raised his son, Boris, as a problem solver, and who built model ships with his granddaughter, Anna. Boris now conducts research on bioengineered substitutes for the pancreas; Anna is a writer and a designer. A person who requires insulin must walk a tightrope.

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