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Learn to Build Your Own Lithium Batteries with Micah Toll’s New Book

Learn to Build Your Own Lithium Batteries with Micah Toll’s New Book

By Jeremy S Cook

Jeremy S Cook

Jeremy is an engineer with 10 years experience at his full-time profession, and has a BSME from Clemson University. Outside of work he’s an avid maker and experimenter, building anything that comes into his mind!

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Micah Toll’s new book, DIY Lithium Batteries: How To Build Your Own Battery Packs, is full of practical advice for building batteries.

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An Unassuming Electric Vehicle

An Unassuming Electric Vehicle

By Matt Richardson

Matt Richardson

Matt Richardson is a San Francisco-based creative technologist and Contributing Editor at MAKE. He’s the co-author of Getting Started with Raspberry Pi and the author of Getting Started with BeagleBone.

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With the goal of illustrating “the simplicity that alternative energy vehicles could embody,” George Schnakenberg curated and built The Sleeper Bike, an electric motor-assisted bicycle that also sports a stylish look. The San Francisco-based design director handmade the leather battery bag and retrofitted the bike frame with a Hill Topper electric bike kit from Clean […]

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Electric motorcycle made from junk

By Gareth Branwyn

Gareth Branwyn

Gareth Branwyn is a freelance writer and the former Editorial Director of Maker Media. He is the author or editor of over a dozen books on technology, DIY, and geek culture. He is currently a contributor to Boing Boing, Wink Books, and Wink Fun. And he has a new best-of writing collection and “lazy man’s memoir,” called Borg Like Me.

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This laid-off fellow in Omaha, NE built himself an electric-powered motorcycle mainly out of junk. He also built a windmill and a small solar system to charge it. Electra Green

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