5+ hour, 43+ min ago   (37+ words) Most hackers and makers end up with a cheap pair of calipers in the toolbox at some point or another. [DiodeGoneWild] decided to take a particularly cheap plastic pair and tear them down to see what m......

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (255+ words) Hackaday For decades now, companies like Michelin have been teasing us with futuristic-looking automobile tires that don’t use air Instead, they use a polymer mesh of sorts which maintains the same pressure on the travel surface that a pneumatic…...

1+ mon, 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+ mon, 3+ week ago   (36+ words) As more and more of the 'smart' infotainment systems in cars begin to age out of support, it becomes increasingly more relevant to figure out how to do something with that lump of computer-and-display......

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (686+ words) Hackaday If you’ve ever spent time in a modern BMW, you’ve probably fussed about with the goofy iDrive controller It’s a rotary knobbery slidery thing that just never really feels that good to use [Garage Tinkering] was…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (29+ words) Small internal combustion engines usually keep things simple, relying on carburetors to handle metering the correct amount of fuel and air. Recently, [Carlos Takeshita] decided his small engine could......

3+ mon, 3+ day ago   (34+ words) Car airbags are both a very simple concept and a marvel of engineering, replacing the bone-shattering impact of unforgiving plastic and steel with a relatively soft landing in a funky-smelling air cus......

3+ mon, 4+ day ago   (283+ words) Recently [Camden Bowen] took a swing at machining a two-stroke engine out of billet aluminium, following adventures in 3D printing such an engine, as well as building one out of parts largely sourced from a hardware store. The sketchiest part here…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (33+ words) Converting the ignition of a fuel-air mixture into usable mechanical energy lies at the core of a dizzying number of internal combustion engines developed over the course of more than century. Althoug......

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (471+ words) For the average rider, inner tubes have been one of the most enduring and unchanging parts of bicycle design over the decades. They're made of rubber, they have a Schrader or Presta valve, and they ge......