Collaborate Disseminate
While some online privacy issues can be subtle and difficult to understand, location tracking is very simple – and very scary. Perhaps nothing reveals more about who we are and what we do than a detailed map of all the places and people we visit, where… Continue reading Location tracking and the battle for digital privacy
While most of us carry cell phones that have GPS and other location services, they require a significant amount of infrastructure to be useful. Drive from Washington to Alaska like …read more Continue reading Automatic Position Reporting Over HF Radio
While we absolutely support the right of everyone to express their opinions, it seems to us that it’s rarely wise to turn your vehicle into a mobile billboard for your …read more Continue reading AI-Powered Bumper Sticker Provides Context-Sensitive Urban Camouflage
We have all heard the statistics on how safe air travel is, with more people dying and getting injured on their way to and from the airport than while traveling …read more Continue reading How Airplanes Mostly Stopped Flying Into Terrain And Other Safety Improvements
When setting up a city in the desert, the team behind Burning Man does its best to lay things out in an ordered fashion. Even still, getting around at ground …read more Continue reading Navigate Burning Man With Ease With This Custom Tool
This week Jonathan Bennett and Jeff Massie talk with JP Mens about Owntracks, the collection of programs that lets you take back control of your own location data. It’s built …read more Continue reading FLOSS Weekly Episode 767: Owntracks, Are We There Yet?
We tend take GPS navigation for granted these days, so it’s easy to forget that it became only available in the last few decades. Aviation navigation used to be significantly …read more Continue reading A Live Map Display In A 1960s Airliner
For those of you rushing to the comment section after reading the title to tell [Ben Dauphinee] that his DIY land surveying efforts are for naught because only a licensed …read more Continue reading A Homebrew GPS Correction System for DIY Land Surveying
One of the more interesting facets of GPS is that, at least from the receiver’s point-of-view, it’s a fairly passive system. All of the information beamed down from the satellites …read more Continue reading Building a GPS Receiver from the Ground Up
Back near the beginning of the current Solar Cycle 25, we penned an article on what the whole deal is with solar cycles, and what could potentially lie in store …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: December 24, 2023