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Team Repair Breaks Things to Teach People How to Fix Them

Posted on July 25, 2026 by Navarre Bartz
A cardboard box (top left), set of instructions (top right), and a disassembled gaming console (bottom half) are strewn across a light blue tabletop, giving the impression that repair is impending.

Would you buy a broken device, fix it, then return the repaired item? [Team Repair] hopes you will. Many people would rather repair what they have than have to get …read more Continue reading Team Repair Breaks Things to Teach People How to Fix Them→

Posted in fix, iFixIt, repair hacks, Right to Repair, Team Repair | Tagged Repair

ICCU Monitor Logs Data in E-GMP EV Failures

Posted on July 25, 2026 by Navarre Bartz
A baby blue hatchback with red accents drives down a road with blurry trees and a blue sky in the background.

EVs are less mechanically complicated than their combustion kin, but that doesn’t mean they’re immune to component failure. The Integrated Charge Control Unit (ICCU) has been the main failure point …read more Continue reading ICCU Monitor Logs Data in E-GMP EV Failures→

Posted in car hacks, E-GMP, ICCU, Integrated Charge Control Unit | Tagged Genesis, Hyundai, Kia

Keeping Mosquitoes Away with Catnip-Based Repellent

Posted on July 24, 2026 by Navarre Bartz
An image of a brown, red, and black mosquito on light human skin

Despite their small size, mosquitoes are one of the deadliest creatures on Earth, and keeping them away from you is one of the best ways to stay safe. DEET has …read more Continue reading Keeping Mosquitoes Away with Catnip-Based Repellent→

Posted in bug repellent, green hacks, insect repellent, mosquito repellent, pesticide | Tagged Mosquito

An LLM in the Kitchen

Posted on July 22, 2026 by Navarre Bartz
A zoomed out screenshot of a flow chart recipe. It is made of 8 bit ingredient icons with their name and amounts moving through steps to the finished "Vegan Chicken Parmy Feast."

Have you ever been looking up a recipe for something new and been stymied by the directions being a wall of text, especially to find that one detail right when …read more Continue reading An LLM in the Kitchen→

Posted in cooking hacks

A Smarter DIY Air Filter

Posted on July 22, 2026 by Navarre Bartz
A vaguely perforated metal cylinder sits on a wooden box with a grey cylinder and LCD display atop it. There are holes in the top of the grey cylinder for air to flow through.

As predominantly indoor creatures, it’s important to maintain a healthy habitat for the hacker. [Kishan Pratap Singh] designed a clever solution in AirSense, an ESP32-powered air filter. If you’re thinking …read more Continue reading A Smarter DIY Air Filter→

Posted in air purifier, air quality, ESP32, ESP32-S3, home automation, home hacks, home-assistant, smart home

Who’s Building that Data Center?

Posted on July 21, 2026 by Navarre Bartz
A map of the lower 48 US States with an overlay of various colorful bubbles indicating data center developments, whether proposed, contested, under construction, or operational. There are a lot of bubbles! Hawaii isn't pictured, but looks to have one project currently, but nothing in Alaska for now.

One of the biggest “David versus Goliath” stories in tech right now is the towns beset by AI data center projects they may or may not have asked for. Powered …read more Continue reading Who’s Building that Data Center?→

Posted in Artificial Intelligence, Current Events, data centers, heat island, power generation | Tagged Cooling

Google Maps Killed the Restaurant Star

Posted on July 21, 2026 by Navarre Bartz
Two maps of London turned into hexagonal regions heat mapped from white to peach to purple. The left map is according to: density, ratings, surprise, cuisine diversity, and independent share. The map on the right of merged data assigns the dominant hub type in a region. Purple is assigned a value of "Elite", reddish orange is "Strong", peach is "Everyday", and white/grey is "Weak." The five locations deemed to be the highest scorers were Ealing-Acton, Kingston Upon Thames, Enfield, Bromley, and Havering.

We all know that Google and other big players pick and choose what information people see, but we sometimes overlook it outside of the search and social media space. [Lauren …read more Continue reading Google Maps Killed the Restaurant Star→

Posted in algorithm, bias, google hacks, Google Maps, Machine Learning

Echolocation for Drones

Posted on July 20, 2026 by Navarre Bartz
A quadcopter with a clear, U-shaped shield up front and red propellers navigates between a close stand of moss-covered trees.

Bats are remarkable creatures, able to fly at night or inside the confines of caves without light to guide their way. A team of researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) …read more Continue reading Echolocation for Drones→

Posted in Air, BAT, bats, bimimicry, drone, drone hacks, echolocation | Tagged Biomimetic, Obstacle avoidance, Sensors

A Pop-Up Truck Camper for Less

Posted on July 19, 2026 by Navarre Bartz
A black pickup sits in front of a snow-capped mountain range in the background. It has a white camper shell with a sci-fi looking "01" emblazoned on the side in black text. An orange, wedge-shaped tent pops up above the campershell and truck roof.

We live in a veritable Cambrian Explosion of camping options, ranging from a tarp on the ground to multi-million dollar RVs. Somewhere around the middle is the pop-up truck camper, …read more Continue reading A Pop-Up Truck Camper for Less→

Posted in camper, camper shell, car hacks, overlanding, transportation hacks | Tagged Camping, roof-top tent, Truck

A New Challenger Approaches the Open Source Vehicle

Posted on July 6, 2026 by Navarre Bartz
A man in a black shirt with the word "Mutiny" in yellow letters next to a short set of red, orange, and yellow stripes like a 1970s truck graphics package guestures to the camera while holding a sketch of a blurple truck consisting of a tube frame cab, flat loading deck, orange seat, and a silvery front bumper.

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 …read more Continue reading A New Challenger Approaches the Open Source Vehicle→

Posted in kei, kei truck, open source car, open source vehicle, transportation hacks

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