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The bicycle can tell us how to make it better16 comments

Mike Szczys wrote 1 day ago: Over the years bicycle design has changed. Materials were upgraded as technology advanced, and accum … more →

Tags: Balance, bicycle, stability, Research, UC Davis

Motorized skateboard just begging to be your next project19 comments

Mike Szczys wrote 2 days ago: You’re not going to be doing any flip-tricks with this board, but it’ll let you get arou … more →

Tags: Battery, Electric, lead acid, LIFEPO, MOTOR, skatebaord

Electric motorcycle is awesome, goes 54 mph38 comments

Brian Benchoff wrote 3 days ago: The folks over at the Cincinnati hackerspace Hive13 were wowed last week by an electric motorcycle b … more →

Tags: electric motorcycle, motorcycle

Classic VW bug stereo gets Bluetooth22 comments

Caleb Kraft wrote 4 days ago: If any of you deal with older car fanatics, you’ll know that the original dash stereo is a cov … more →

Tags: cellphones hacks, bluetooth

Arduino tells you how rough your last mountain bike ride was15 comments

Mike Szczys wrote 5 days ago: If you want to see what kind of abuse you’re causing your body when out on those single-track … more →

Tags: Abs, Accelerometer, Arduino, Bike, Data logger, Mountain Bike, Shield

Building a travel trailer from the ground up22 comments

Brian Benchoff wrote 5 days ago: While it may only be [ioan]‘s first ‘real build’, we’re loving his DIY teard … more →

Tags: airstream, camper trailer, Travel Trailer

Gyroscopically stabilized car/motorcycle thing41 comments

Mike Szczys wrote 1 week ago: So yeah, this thing exists. Well, at least some pretty interesting looking prototypes of it do. It … more →

Tags: c-1, Car, gyroscope, Lit Motors, motorcycle

Volt teardown shows more than just what's under the hood26 comments

Mike Szczys wrote 1 week ago: The Chevrolet Volt is one of the top contenders in mass-market electric vehicles. Now you can get a … more →

Tags: Chevrolet, Chevy, Ev, Teardown, Volt

Man, stranded in the desert, makes a motorcycle from his broken car132 comments

Caleb Kraft wrote 1 week ago: The original story is in French, and the Google translate is very rough. Please forgive us if we don … more →

Tags: citroen, desert, French

DeLorean hovercraft8 comments

Caleb Kraft wrote 1 week ago: [Matthew Riese] got frustrated waiting for the future to arrive so he could have his flying car. He … more →

Tags: Delorean, Hovercraft

Amphi-Cycle lets you ride the trails, the waves, and back again24 comments

Mike Nathan wrote 2 weeks ago: Hackaday regular [Berto] is always looking for new ways to get around, and wrote in to share his mos … more →

Tags: News, amphibious, berto, bicycle, trolling motor

The WiiKart, a wireless go kart14 comments

Caleb Kraft wrote 2 weeks ago: Whoops… Looks like we covered this already. My mistake. In case the name didn’t tip you … more →

Tags: Nintendo, Wii, kart

Drop everything and build this go-kart right now!27 comments

Mike Szczys wrote 4 weeks ago: There are awesome projects, and then there are things that make us drool on the keyboard. We just go … more →

Tags: MIT, Race, Hub Motor, Go-Kart

Rail bike conversion is a success, and a failure35 comments

Caleb Kraft wrote 4 weeks ago: There is a long tradition of hacking transportation to work on the rails. People have done it to all … more →

Tags: bicycle, train, Railway, Train Tracks

Home brew motorized bicycle is a super grocery getter13 comments

Brian Benchoff wrote 1 month ago: [Thor] sent in an awesome motorized bike build he found coming from the fruitful workshop of [Jim Ga … more →

Tags: bicycle, moped, motorized bicycle

Pedal powered hydrofoil looks like a lot of fun18 comments

Brian Benchoff wrote 1 month ago: After reading a bicycle-powered hydrofoil build we posted a few days ago, [James] sent in the projec … more →

Tags: hydrofoil, pedal-powered

Hacking the trampofoil to be pedal powered28 comments

Caleb Kraft wrote 1 month ago: We’ve seen a few different versions of the “trampofoil” before. That’s the c … more →

Tags: trampofoil, hydrofoil

OBD-II TrckrX: data logging in a BMW E36 M314 comments

Caleb Kraft wrote 1 month ago: [Bruce Land] sent in this cool final project for ECE 4760 at Cornell University. Dubbed TrckrX, it i … more →

Tags: obd II, Final Project, BMD, ECE

Real BMW dash cluster for your racing games9 comments

Caleb Kraft wrote 1 month ago: Here’s a cool add on that could making racing games just a little more engaging. How about a r … more →

Tags: pcs hacks, Racing


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