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Looking at a bike built for the apocalypse

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Looking At A Bike Built For The Apocalypse

So-called bug out cars are a rather silly venture that serve little purpose more than snagging your jumper. The odds of a car working well through a nuclear winter are rather minimal. But what abou…

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13 11h ago

Looking at a bike built for the apocalypse https://hackaday.com/2026/03/26/looking-at-a-bike-built-for-the-apocalypse/
#TransportationHacks #Apocalypse #Apocalypseride #Bicycle #Bikehacks #Postapocalypse #Postapocalyptic #Reliability

Looking At A Bike Built For The Apocalypse

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13 1d ago

Electric Motorcycles Don’t Have To Be Security Nightmares, But This One Was https://hackaday.com/2026/03/25/electric-motorcycles-dont-have-to-be-security-nightmares-but-this-one-was/
#SecurityHacks #TransportationHacks #Cybersecurity #Electricmotorcycle #Pentest

Electric Motorcycles Don’t Have To Be Security Nightmares, But This One Was

Once upon a time, they told us we wouldn’t download a car, and they were wrong. Later, Zero Motorcycles stated in their FAQ that you cannot hack an electric motorcycle, a statement which [Per…

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Hackaday Mar 17

Preparing to Fire Up a 90-Year-Old Boiler After Half a Century

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13 Mar 17

Preparing to Fire Up a 90-Year-Old Boiler After Half a Century https://hackaday.com/2026/03/17/preparing-to-fire-up-a-90-year-old-boiler-after-half-a-century/
#History #TransportationHacks #Boiler #Boilermaking #Steam

Preparing To Fire Up A 90-Year-Old Boiler After Half A Century

Continuing the restoration of the #1 Lancashire boiler at the Claymills Pumping Station in the UK, the volunteers are putting on the final touches after previously passing the boiler inspection. Al…

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Hackaday Mar 16

Magnetic-Suspension Hoverboard is Only 11 Years Late

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/03/15/magnetic-suspension-hoverboard-is-only-11-years-late/

13 Mar 16

Magnetic-Suspension Hoverboard is Only 11 Years Late https://hackaday.com/2026/03/15/magnetic-suspension-hoverboard-is-only-11-years-late/
#TransportationHacks #Backtothefuture #Colinfurze #Hoverboard #Neodymiummagnets

Magnetic-Suspension Hoverboard Is Only 11 Years Late

Anyone who saw Back to the Future II was disappointed when 2015 rolled around with nary a hoverboard in sight. There have been various attempts to fake it, but none of them quite have the feel of f…

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Hackaday Mar 10

The “Tin Blimp” Was a Neither Tin Nor a Blimp: The Detroit ZMC-2 Story

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13 Mar 10

The “Tin Blimp” Was a Neither Tin Nor a Blimp: The Detroit ZMC-2 Story https://hackaday.com/2026/03/10/the-tin-blimp-was-a-neither-tin-nor-a-blimp-the-detroit-zmc-2-story/
#Featured #History #OriginalArt #TransportationHacks #Airship #Engineeringhistory #USNavy

The “Tin Blimp” Was A Neither Tin Nor A Blimp: The Detroit ZMC-2 Story

After all the crashing and burning of Imperial Germany’s Zeppelins in the later part of WWI – once the Brits managed to build interceptors that could hit their lofty altitude, and figured out the t…

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13 Mar 8

Pulse Jet Ski Chases the Winter Blues Away https://hackaday.com/2026/03/08/pulse-jet-ski-chases-the-winter-blues-away/
#TransportationHacks #Kickscooter #Pulsejet #Snowmobile #Winter

Pulse Jet Ski Chases The Winter Blues Away

A long winter has a way of making a lot of us northerners a little bit squirrly. In [Build N Pulsejets]’s case, squirly enough to mount a home-made propane-powered pulse-jet to a kids’ …

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