The Purple Pedals project consists of 20 solar-powered, geotagging, photo-taking, flickr-uploading bicycles called the ybike. It's also a really interesting look at why a major sponsor would fund such an unusual project.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2009.02.09 at 03:36
GPSd is a TCP daemon that displays location data that's been polled from a connected GPS device. The are a lot of unix location-aware applications that use GPSd instead of communicating directly with a GPS device since it allows more than one application to access the device at a time.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2009.01.13 at 20:00
New mashup Web site reveals the hole story behind Japan's manhole covers / Ittemia?????????
While not the oddest fetish in Japan by a long way, there are some who travel the length of Japan enticed by the prospect of a compellingly designed manhole.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.12.29 at 02:52
?Robert Sollis, a student at the Royal College of Art wrote an email to Google asking for a marker to be placed on Google Maps for the college's temporary site in Kensington Gardens.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.11.14 at 06:06
Simon writes in about his SV Chronometer – a GPS based, interactive master clock-
This is a little blog post about a device I built to provide me with an accurate time reference I can use to synchronise all the timepieces in my house.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.11.05 at 07:16
Mozilla Labs has launched yet another new project, this one a location based plugin for Firefox. Geode will let users to take advantage of location data embedded within a web page.
Via Hack a Day | Posted on 2008.10.07 at 17:18
We wrote about [Chris Anderson] before when he released the Arduino based autopilot. He has since crashed his first Predator UAV, due to an underpowered motor and poor control of the v-tail only steering.
Via Hack a Day | Posted on 2008.10.05 at 17:01
Incredibly interesting article about GPS spoofing and the theoretical "hijacking" of a truck via Schneier on Security. Jon Warner of Argonne National Laboratories set out to examine GPS security one Saturday afternoon.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.09.19 at 14:31
[dgoeken] sent in his Magellan 3100 hack. The device runs Windows CE 5. 0, and mounts as a standard flash drive. Since everything is easily accessible, it’s just a matter of replacing and modifying the appropriate files.
Via Hack a Day | Posted on 2008.09.16 at 03:16
TomToms have been getting pretty cheap. We like ‘em because they’re nice and hackable. This diy docking station was made from some etched PCBs, a bunch of male pin headers and a bit of hot glue.
Via Hack a Day | Posted on 2008.09.16 at 03:12