2+ day, 11+ hour ago  (35+ words) We live in a veritable Cambrian Explosion of camping options, ranging from a tarp on the ground to multi-million dollar RVs. Somewhere around the middle is the pop-up truck camper, but [Further Fabric......

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (239+ words) Hackaday Vehicles long ago began to incorporate electronics and software, to the point that modern vehicles increasingly have a sort of architecture problem The software end of things evolves ever more rapidly, but vehicles and their centralized architecture are poorly-suited…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (281+ words) Hackaday Online publications sometimes work with sponsors Over at the Autopian, they landed a sponsorship deal with eBay, but due to an unguarded comment, fulfilling the sponsor’s requirements turned out to be something of a handful Build a brand-new,…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (229+ words) Hackaday Though [Ivan Miranda] calls the 3D printed vehicle in his recent video a motorbike, what he ultimately pulls out of his suitcase is clearly a scooter Linguistic confusion aside, the “Mirandetta” looks like an awesome build and pulling a…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (33+ words) In some parts of Canada, you'll rarely hear someone use the phrase "whatever paddles your canoe" instead of the more usual "whatever floats your boat"-- and apparently, at least for one Swede, that's......

2+ week, 13+ hour ago  (137+ words) A New Challenger Approaches The Open Source Vehicle Hackaday Cheap vehicles are thin on the ground in 2026, but [Andy Didorosi] thinks he has the answer for low-speed applications with an open source kei truck. Still in the early design phase,…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (36+ words) Cheap vehicles are thin on the ground in 2026, but [Andy Didorosi] thinks he has the answer for low-speed applications with an open source kei truck. Still in the early design phase, [Didorosi] has a......

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (35+ words) When you're driving your car, you're probably regularly looking at the speedometer to make sure you comply with the local speed limits. The method by which it works is simple enough: the rotation of t......

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (279+ words) Hackaday Offloading acceleration and braking to an electric motor in a hybrid configuration allows the less efficient combustion engine run in a more narrow set of RPM and torque ranges In some cases the motor is decoupled from the mechanical…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (291+ words) A pervasive story is that electric vehicles (EVs or BEVs) are actually dirtier than combustion vehicles if charged by a fossil fuel-based electricity grid. A new study reaffirms others that show, at l... A pervasive story is that electric vehicles (EVs…...