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Sometimes, you have to wonder what major manufacturers of assistive tech are thinking when they design their products. [Niklas Frost]’s father has MS and uses an electric mobility scooter to …read more Continue reading Magnetic Power Cable Makes Mobility Scooter Much Better
Now, it’s been a shamefully long time since we’ve driven a car with a manual transmission, but as we recall it was pretty straightforward. It certainly didn’t require a lot …read more Continue reading Arduino Gear Shift Indicator Finds ‘Em So You Won’t Grind ‘Em
When you’re hooking up equipment across a vehicle, you’re often stuck sending power and data to and from things like sensors or actuators. The more wires you have to run, …read more Continue reading Running Power and Data Over Just Two Wires
For fans of the iconic anime Akira, there’s only one way to traverse the mean streets of post-apocalyptic neo-Tokyo, and that’s the futuristic mount of motorcycle gang leader Shôtarô Kaneda. …read more Continue reading Shôtarô Kaneda’s Motorcycle, For Real
The writer Cory Doctrow coined the term enshittification to describe the way that services decline in quality as their users become the product. He was talking about online services when …read more Continue reading The Insurance Buys The Wheelchair, But Not The App To Run It
There was a time when all you needed to use your car was a key. On older vehicles it was a traditional metal key, on more recent ones it had …read more Continue reading Older Nissan Leafs Lose Their App, Are They The First Of Many?
As electric drives sweep their way to dominance in the automotive world, there’s another transport sector in which their is also continuing apace. Electric-assisted bicycles preserve the feeling of riding …read more Continue reading How Powerful Should An Electric bike Be? The UK Is Asking
We all know how a conventional internal combustion engine works, with a piston and a crankshaft. But that’s by no means the only way to make an engine, and one …read more Continue reading Retrotechtacular: The Free Piston Engine
There are many benefits to learning to fly an airplane, drive a racing car, or operate some complex piece of machinery. Ideally, you’d do so in a perfectly safe environment, …read more Continue reading Car Driving Simulators for Students, or: When Simulators Make Sense
There’s something magical about a train, whether you call it a railway or a railroad, plenty of us have hankered after our own little piece of line on which to …read more Continue reading 3D Print Train Wheels For Garden Railway