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Escape Proprietary Smart Home Tech With This DIY Panel

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Over the last few years, I’ve added a fair amount of smart-home technology to my house. Among other things, I can control lights and outlets, monitor the status of various appliances, measure how much electricity and water I’m using, and even cut off the water supply in the event of a leak.

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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. A third of the top 15 articles relate to wireless and radio tech, with one concerning a home-brew radio telescope (October 2019). Are there trends in DIY projects you think we’re missing? Drop me a line at cass.s@ieee.org

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A DIY E-bike Conversion on the Cheap

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In 2009, I wrote in these pages about my efforts to. add an electric motor to a bicycle —a project that involved a considerable outlay of money and many hours in a machine shop behind a lathe. At the time, e-bikes were still rather exotic, at least in the United States, so it seemed worth the expense and effort to build my own.

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3D-Printed OLEDs Enable DIY  Screens Nearly Anywhere

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The group's print-your-own-display tech could even ultimately enable homemade holograms—though, he says, further innovations in the hardware would be necessary first. “The pixels can be conformally printed on curved surfaces to integrate with daily objects in the era of Internet of Things….

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Tech: How to Troubleshoot Electrical Issues

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Tech: How to Troubleshoot Electrical Issues Tips for Diagnosing Power Issues in your Car This article may contain affiliate links. Although you can have an approximate gauge of the issue yourself, it does not necessarily mean you can take the DIY route.

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A DIY E-bike Conversion on the Cheap

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In 2009, I wrote in these pages about my efforts to. add an electric motor to a bicycle —a project that involved a considerable outlay of money and many hours in a machine shop behind a lathe. At the time, e-bikes were still rather exotic, at least in the United States, so it seemed worth the expense and effort to build my own.

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BMW Uses Siri-like Tech to Promote Electric Car

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The Bakery is supported by the IPA, Tech City Investment Organisation and UK Trade & Investment and agencies including Vizeum, Havas Worldwide, MBA, Karmarama and KittCattNohr Digitas. The partnership between BMW and London Brand Management is the first to come from the recently launched marketing technology accelerator scheme The Bakery.

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