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When life hands you a mysterious bit of vintage avionics, your best bet to identifying it might just be to get it in front of the biggest bunch of hardware …read more Continue reading Inside a Mystery Aerospace Computer with [Ken Shirriff]
The Beeline Moto is likely the simplest, most user-friendly electronic motorcycle navigation device you can buy. Its new successor, the Moto II, keeps things simple but adds some handy new features like a mini map view.Continue ReadingCategory: Motorcy… Continue reading Beeline Moto 2 adds a mini map and more to still-simple sat nav device
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
Polynesian cultures have a remarkable navigational tradition. It stands as a testament to human ingenuity and an intimate understanding of nature. Where Western cultures developed maps and tools to plot …read more Continue reading Polynesian Wayfinding Traditions Let Humans Roam The Pacific Ocean
Back in the old days, finding out your location on Earth was a pretty involved endeavor. You had to look at stars, use fancy gimballed equipment to track your motion, …read more Continue reading Fancy Gyroscopes Are Key To Radio-Free Navigation
When it comes to precisely locating landing pads or other landmarks, autonomous drones rely largely on visual cues. So, what happens if it’s dark, rainy or foggy, and there’s no ground-based power for lights? Well, that’s where the Millisign system is … Continue reading Millisign tech guides autonomous drones via battery-less ground tags
In recent years, we’ve heard about navigational systems which guide pedestrians via vibrating actuators in their shoes. The FeetThrough system takes a different and reportedly better approach, by actually shocking the soles of the feet.Continue Reading… Continue reading FeetThrough tech guides walking users … by shocking their feet?
Augmented reality eyewear is great for providing turn-by-turn navigational cues, but a lot of the goggles and visors have a kind of … tech-nerdy vibe. Blucap Moto sunglasses are different, in that they won’t make you look like a Sheldon Cooper wannabe…. Continue reading Blucap Moto navigational AR sunglasses keep the geek factor down
In some ways, we’ve become a little jaded when it comes to news from Mars, which almost always has to do with the Ingenuity helicopter completing yet another successful flight. …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: August 20, 2023
Using very small atoms to guide very large submarines, Q-CTRL has been awarded a contract by the Australian Department of Defence to develop quantum mechanics systems for the AUKUS treaty partners to navigate subs on long underwater missions.Continue R… Continue reading AUKUS treaty members set sights on revolutionary quantum sub navigation