Collaborate Disseminate
Over on his YouTube channel [Tom Stanton] shows us how to build a Stirling Engine for a bike. A Stirling Engine is a heat engine, powered by the expansion and …read more Continue reading Building a Stirling Engine Bike
If you’ve put in all the necessary practice to learn bike tricks, you’d probably like an appropriately dramatic soundtrack to accompany your stunts. A team of students working on a …read more Continue reading An Adaptive Soundtrack for Bike Tricks
The drivetrain of most modern bicycles has remained relatively unchanged for nearly a century. There have been marginal upgrades here and there like electronic shifting but you’ll still mostly see …read more Continue reading Automatic Transmission For Manual Transportation
A bicycle is perhaps one of the most repairable pieces of equipment one can own — no matter what’s wrong with it, and wherever you are on the planet, you’ll …read more Continue reading A Bicycle is Abandonware Now? Clever Hack Rescues Dead Light
If you’ve worked on a high-end mountain or road bike for any length of time, you have likely cursed the Presta valve. This humble century-old invention is the bane of …read more Continue reading A New Kind of Bike Valve?
Ignoring the International Cycling Union‘s mostly arbitrary rules for what a bicycle is “supposed” to look like (at least if you want to race), there are actually reasons that the …read more Continue reading Bicycle Adds Reliability With Second Chain
We tinkerers often have ideas we know are crazy, and we make them up in the most bizarre places, too. For example, just imagine hosting a website while pedaling across …read more Continue reading Pedaling your Mobile Web Server Across the Globe
We’ve been focusing in on some of the powertrain innovations Mahle has been developing and fine-tuning for the electric car and truck market, and the company hasn’t been letting its ebike offerings slide, either. This week, it launched its lightest ele… Continue reading Mahle’s lightest ebike drive ever drops even more weight
Normally when making a long voyage in a canoe, an adventurer would paddle the vessel as far as possible and then “portage”, or carry, the canoe over the short sections …read more Continue reading Self-Portaging Canoe is Part Bicycle
They’re back! The San Francisco autonomous vehicle hijinks, that is, as Waymo’s fleet of driverless cars recently took up the fun new hobby of honking their horns in the wee …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: August 18, 2024