Canned food, crackers, MREs, beer—it’s all fun to eat for a little while when the power’s out. Eventually, though, you want actual meals to eat, and that’s when you’ll be glad you found Chef 5 Minute Meals. More »
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Chef 5 Minute Meals are Self-Heating Go-To Power Outage Food
The Raspberry Pi is all about low-cost computing, which makes this particular hack quite fitting, as it allows you to make a terminal for your lil’ Linux machine out of something you may already have at home: a Kindle Paperwhite . Displeased with the glare from his laptop’s screen on a sunny day, Max Ogden was inspired to find something better and ended up with this Paperwhite hack . It builds on the original “Kindleberry Pi” method for the Kindle Keyboard , although Ogden had to massage it for the newer model and added some extra hardware to make the setup as wireless as possible. You wouldn’t call the end result a monitor, as such — the Paperwhite logs into an SSH session running on the Pi, so it “pretty much only works for terminals.” That’s probably for the best, as Ogden guesses the lag between wireless keyboard and e-ink screen is around 200ms, but at least it has portability, battery life and sunlight readability in the ‘pros’ column. Details of the project can be found at the source below, meaning only time (and probably, a few peripherals) stands between you and the ultimate hipster coffee shop machine . Filed under: Misc , Software , Amazon Comments Via: Raspberry Pi Source: Max Ogden
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Hacker turns Kindle Paperwhite into wireless Raspberry Pi terminal
Known affectionately as Bertha, this tunnel boring machine has the widest diameter of any boring machine ever built; 57.5 feet. It’s being used to dig a highway tunnel under downtown Seattle and it just arrived there today after being shipped from Japan. I feel this warrants your attention for two reasons: 1) If you live near Seattle, you can actually go get a look at this massive beast before it starts chewing its way through the city. If you like looking at giant machines (or know someone who does) now’s your chance. She’s coming into the Port of Seattle, Terminal 46, as you read this and there will be ample opportunities to get a look as the pieces are assembled and moved into the nearby launch pit. The Washington State Department of Transportation has suggestions on places to go to get a good view . 2) If, for some reason, you were looking for a new way to lose massive amounts of time on YouTube, Bertha (and boring machines, in general) can help with that. Here’s a cutaway animation explaining how boring machines work . Here’s a video of Big Becky, another boring machine, breaking through to the other side of a tunnel at Niagara Falls, Canada . (In fact, boring machine breakthrough videos are, in and of themselves, a mesmerizing genre.) And in this video, you can watch the massively long line of support equipment go by in the wake of a boring machine .
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World’s largest tunnel boring machine lands in Seattle
President Obama announced plans this morning for a long-term research project to improve our understanding of the brain. Comparing it to the Human Genome Project, Obama said the brain-mapping initiative could lead to cures for diseases like Alzheimer’s and autism, while fueling economic growth and job creation. Here’s what you need to know. Read more…
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Obama has announced a $100-million brain-mapping project
If your old car has finally bit the dust but its stereo is still in good shape, IKEA hacker Stefano shows us how to put that stereo into a cabinet and keep it alive. More »
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Turn an Old Car Stereo Into a Boom Box
Though we’ve seen plenty of our beautiful blue marble from space before, here’s what Earth looks like from a hundred million miles away. That’s roughly the same distance from the Earth to the Sun. More »
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What Earth Looks Like from a 100 Million Miles Away