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13 @13@2137.social
· 3mo ago
Open-Source Mid-Drive e-Bike Motor Has Lots of Promise, and Hyphens https://hackaday.com/2026/07/18/open-source-mid-drive-e-bike-motor-has-lots-of-promise-and-hyphens/ #TransportationHacks #Bicycle #Bike #Ebike #Ebikemotor #Electricbicycle #Middrive
Open-Source Mid-Drive E-Bike Motor Has Lots Of Promise, And Hyphens
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Open-Source Mid-Drive E-Bike Motor Has Lots Of Promise, And Hyphens

[Pedro Neves] has a mid-drive e-bike, but he doesn’t own it — not truly, since he can’t repair the motor unit. For a hacker to be in that position, there are only two options: cra…

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13 @13@2137.social
· 3mo ago
White Rails are the Infrastructure Hack We Didn’t Know We Needed https://hackaday.com/2026/07/16/white-rails-are-the-infrastructure-hack-we-didnt-know-we-needed/ #TransportationHacks #Infrastructure #Railroad #Whitepaint
White Rails Are The Infrastructure Hack We Didn’t Know We Needed
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White Rails Are The Infrastructure Hack We Didn’t Know We Needed

Railroads might be a nineteenth century technology, but they’re still the backbone of cargo transportation in the 21st century. They’ve also far from run out of innovation, including th…

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13 @13@2137.social
· 4mo ago
ESP32 Keeps Tabs on Your Local Airspace https://hackaday.com/2026/07/08/esp32-keeps-tabs-on-your-local-airspace/ #Microcontrollers #TransportationHacks #Adsb #ESP32 #Esp32C3 #Flighttracker #Rounddisplay
ESP32 Keeps Tabs On Your Local Airspace
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ESP32 Keeps Tabs On Your Local Airspace

We know, we know. Despite being called ESP32-Plane-Radar, this project from [Mateusz Juszczyk] isn’t actually using radar. But thanks to the round LCD this desktop gadget does a fantastic job…

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13 @13@2137.social
· 4mo ago
Ultra-Long Range Flights To Ease Australian Air Travel https://hackaday.com/2026/07/06/ultra-long-range-flights-to-ease-australian-air-travel/ #Featured #OriginalArt #TransportationHacks #Airtravel #Airline #Airliner #Australia #Flights #Plane #Qantas
Ultra-Long Range Flights To Ease Australian Air Travel
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Ultra-Long Range Flights To Ease Australian Air Travel

Pity the poor Australians. Isolated on a jagged hunk of land far from everywhere else, these industrious people have to take two-legged flights (or more) to reach a great many destinations in the n…

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13 @13@2137.social
· 4mo ago
A New Challenger Approaches the Open Source Vehicle https://hackaday.com/2026/07/06/a-new-challenger-approaches-the-open-source-vehicle/ #TransportationHacks #Kei #Keitruck #Opensourcecar #Opensourcevehicle
A New Challenger Approaches The Open Source Vehicle
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A New Challenger Approaches The Open Source Vehicle

Cheap vehicles are thin on the ground in 2026, but [Andy Didorosi] thinks he has the answer for low-speed applications with an open source kei truck. Still in the early design phase, [Didorosi] has…

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13 @13@2137.social
· 8mo ago
Building a Heading Sensor Resistant To Magnetic Disturbances https://hackaday.com/2026/03/06/building-a-heading-sensor-resistant-to-magnetic-disturbances/ #Microcontrollers #TransportationHacks #Heading #Headingsensor #IMU #Inertialmeasurementunit
Building A Heading Sensor Resistant To Magnetic Disturbances
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Building A Heading Sensor Resistant To Magnetic Disturbances

Light aircraft often use a heading indicator as a way to know where they’re going. Retired instrumentation engineer [Don Welch] recreated a heading indicator of his own, using cheap off-the-s…

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13 @13@2137.social
· 8mo ago
Examining A World’s Record From The Age Of Steam https://hackaday.com/2026/03/02/examining-a-worlds-record-from-the-age-of-steam/ #TransportationHacks #Dynamometer #Mallard #Speedrecord #Steamlocomotive
Examining A World’s Record From The Age Of Steam
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Examining A World’s Record From The Age Of Steam

There aren’t many speed records that remain unbroken for the greater part of a century, but one of them is that of the fastest steam locomotive. As with so many such things, there’s a b…

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