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Tommy Liu builds a vehicle-mounted particulate matter monitoring system powered from harvested wind energy and an integrated ...

Rural homes play by different rules. Here's what it really takes, in solar and battery terms, to keep your home's water flowing.

Need a new plug for your microwave? In this video, I show how to wire a new outlet and breaker through the attic step by step. A DIY-friendly project that saves money and gives you a clean, safe ...

Always set your ladder on a solid, level surface. For a stepladder, make sure the spreader locks are fully extended and ...

Combining two TLx431 regulators together to make a programmable gain current mirror that can be also used for a current loop ...

For switching high-powered loads from a microcontroller, or for switching AC loads in general, most of us will reach into the ...

The Beatles' roadie, Mal Evans, once dosed the studio engineers with uppers so that the musicians could record late into the night.

Scientists have shown that twisting a crystal at the nanoscale can turn it into a tiny, reversible diode, hinting at a new era of shape-engineered electronics.

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U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents stand guard during a protest outside the Whipple Federal Building, more than a week after a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent fatally ...

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