Collaborate Disseminate
Many of us check the weather before heading out for the day — we want to know if we’re dressed (or equipped) properly to handle what Mother Nature has planned …read more Continue reading Enhiker Helps You Decide if its a Good Day to Hike
I was reading Google’s blueprint about their new technology called Find My Device and what took my interest was unknown tracker identification and how Google does that.
Unknown tracker alerts. The Find My Device network is also compliant … Continue reading Google Find My Device unknown tracker alert algorithm?
Sometimes you need to create a satellite navigation tracking device that communicates via a low-power mesh network. [Powerfeatherdev] was in just that situation, and they whipped up a particularly compact …read more Continue reading Tiny LoRa GPS Node Relies on ESP32
Need a weekend project? [Cepa] wanted a GPS tracker that would send data out via LTE or the Iridium network. Ok, maybe that’s one for a very long weekend. However, …read more Continue reading GPS Tracking in the Trackless Land
It’s pretty easy to take a balloon, fill it up with helium, and send it up in to the upper atmosphere. It’s much harder to keep track of it and …read more Continue reading A Lightweight Balloon Tracker For High Altitude Missions
A disclaimer: Not a single cable tie was harmed in the making of this backpack cyberdeck, and considering that we lost count of the number of USB cables [Bag-Builds] used …read more Continue reading Cyberpack Puts All the Radios Right on Your Back
Sometimes there’s nothing more rewarding than pulling apart an old piece of hardware of mysterious origin. [saveitforparts] does just that, and recently came across a curious satellite system from a …read more Continue reading Pulling Apart An Old Satellite Truck Tracker
One major flaw of designing societies around cars is the sheer amount of signage that drivers are expected to recognize, read, and react to. It’s a highly complex system that …read more Continue reading Train Speed Signaling Adapted For Car
The oft-quoted saying “all models are wrong, but some are useful” is a tounge-in-cheek way of saying that at some level, tools we use to predict how the world behaves …read more Continue reading Misleading GPS, Philosophy of Maps, And You
Although the types of drones currently dominating headlines tend to be airborne, whether it’s hobbyist quadcopters, autonomous delivery vehicles, or military craft, autonomous vehicles can take nearly any transportation method …read more Continue reading Autonomous Boat Plots Lake Beds