You Can Hail a Public Bus Like an Uber in This City
Can on-demand buses stop Uber from cannibalizing public transit? Continue reading You Can Hail a Public Bus Like an Uber in This City
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Greyhound’s Cuts in Western Canada Are Going to Screw Over So Many People
The Canadian bus provider announced it’s cutting service to 400 communities. Is it time to start thinking about a nationalized bus service? Continue reading Greyhound’s Cuts in Western Canada Are Going to Screw Over So Many People
Electric School Buses Can Be Backup Batteries For the US Power Grid
American school buses guzzle $3.2B of carcinogen-laden diesel a year, but they could do a lot of good if electrified. Continue reading Electric School Buses Can Be Backup Batteries For the US Power Grid
Human Bus Drivers Will Always Be Better Than Robot Bus Drivers
Some jobs can’t be automated. Continue reading Human Bus Drivers Will Always Be Better Than Robot Bus Drivers
GuerillaClock Could Save This City Thousands
They say necessity is the mother of invention. But if the thing you need has already been invented but is extremely expensive, another mother of invention might be budget overruns. That was the case when [klinstifen]’s local government decided to put in countdown clocks at bus stops, at a whopping $25,000 per clock. Thinking that was a little extreme, he decided to build his own with a much smaller price tag.
The project uses a Raspberry Pi Zero W as its core, and a 16×32 RGB LED matrix for a display. Some of the work is done already, since the …read more
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Hackaday Prize Entry: MappyDot, a Micro Smart LiDAR Sensor
[Blecky]’s entry to the Hackaday Prize is MappyDot, a tiny board less than a square inch in size that holds a VL53L0X time-of-flight distance sensor and can measure distances of up to 2 meters.
MappyDot is more than just a breakout board; the ATMega328PB microcontroller on each PCB provides filtering, an easy to use I2C interface, and automatically handles up to 112 boards connected in a bus. The idea is that one or a few MappyDots can be used by themselves, but managing a large number is just as easy. By dotting a device with multiple MappyDots pointing in different …read more
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Uber Won’t Say Whether Its Public Transit Initiative Is Making Money
But the city loves it. Continue reading Uber Won’t Say Whether Its Public Transit Initiative Is Making Money
Uber Won’t Say Whether Its Public Transit Initiative Is Making Money
But the city loves it. Continue reading Uber Won’t Say Whether Its Public Transit Initiative Is Making Money
Retrotechtacular: London Bus Overhaul
If you have ever visited London as a tourist, what memories did you take away as iconic of the British capital city? The sound of Big Ben sounding the hour in the Elizabeth Tower of the Palace of Westminster perhaps, the Yeoman Warders at the Tower of London, or maybe the guardsmen at Buckingham Palace. Or how about the red double-decker buses? They’re something that, while not unique to the city, have certainly become part of its public image in a way that perhaps the public transport of other capitals hasn’t.
A city the size of London has many thousands …read more
Embed With Elliot: LIN is for Hackers
A car is a rolling pile of hundreds of microcontrollers these days — just ask any greybeard mechanic and he’ll start his “carburetor” rant. All of these systems and sub-systems need to talk to each other in an electrically hostile environment, and it’s not an exaggeration to say that miscommunication, or even delayed communication, can have serious consequences. In-car networking is serious business. Mass production of cars makes many of the relevant transceiver ICs cheap for the non-automotive hardware hacker. So why don’t we see more hacker projects that leverage this tremendous resource base?
The backbone of a car’s network …read more
