Ford Eyes Use of Customers’ Personal Data to Boost Profits
Ford’s CEO sees the tech company model as key to the company’s next chapter. Continue reading Ford Eyes Use of Customers’ Personal Data to Boost Profits
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Building an Electric Scooter That’s Street Legal, Even in Germany
Sometimes a successful project isn’t only about making sure all the electrons are in the right place at the right time, or building something that won’t collapse under its own weight. A lot of projects involve a fair amount of social engineering to be counted as a success, especially those that might result in arrest and incarceration if built as originally planned. Such projects are often referred to as “the fun ones.”
For the past few months, we’ve been following [Bitluni]’s DIY electric scooter build, which had been following the usual trajectory for these things – take a stock unpowered …read more
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Scooter Hauls Kids With A Little Heavy Metal
Where there’s a will, there’s a way. Similarly, where there’s a paying customer and a well stocked metalworking shop, there will also be a way. That’s about all the backstory you need to understand this latest creation from [Richard Day] of 42Fab. A customer asked him to build something that didn’t exist, and in a few hours he not only fabricated it from scratch but documented the whole thing for our viewing pleasure.
The object in question is a mount that would allow the customer to pull a “Burley Bee” kid trailer behind their electric scooter. The trailer is only …read more
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San Francisco Denies Scooter Permits to Uber, Lyft, Bird, and Others
Today’s ruling is a giant middle-finger to Uber, Lyft, Bird, and others who did not receive permits. Continue reading San Francisco Denies Scooter Permits to Uber, Lyft, Bird, and Others
Interfacing with a Digital Speedometer
After swapping the engine out in his scooter, [James Stanley] made an unfortunate discovery. The speedometer was digitally controlled, and while the original engine had a sensor which would generate pulses for it to interpret, his new engine didn’t. Learning that the original sensor would pull the signal wire to ground each time it detected a tooth of one of the spinning gears, [James] reasoned he needed to find a way to detect the scooter’s speed and create these pulses manually.
To find the scooter’s speed, he installed a magnet on the front wheel and a hall effect sensor on …read more
Simple Electric Bike Conversion from 3D-Printed Parts
Challenge: Perform an electric conversion on a bicycle. Problem: No significant metal working skills or equipment. Solution: 3D print everything needed to electrify the bike.
At least that’s the approach that [Tom Stanton] took to his electric bike build. Having caught the electric locomotion bug on a recent longboard build, [Tom] undertook the upgrade of a cheap “fixie,” or fixed-gear bike. His delta printer was big enough for the motor mount and weather-resistant ESC enclosure, but he needed to print the drive pulley in four quadrants that were later glued together. We can’t say we hold much faith in the …read more
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