Low power laptops are a dime a dozen these days (OK, not quite, but you can pick up a refurbished HP Mini 311 for just $170). But looking for something even lower power, one developer decided to take an Amazon Kindle and a Raspberry Pi on a recent trip.
And he used them together like a mobile computer.
The Kindle has an E Ink display which only uses power when the screen is refreshed. The Raspberry Pi is a tiny, inexpensive computer with a 700 MHz ARM Cortex-A8 processor.
In order to use the two together, you need to jailbreak the Kindle, install a terminal emulator, and remotely login to the Raspberry Pi. Things get a bit trickier if you want to hook up an external keyboard rather than using the thumb keyboard built into the Kindle.
The whole setup may not be the most useful — it involves running a bunch of cables from device to device, having a power source handy, and relying on a screen with a slow refresh hell.
But it’s geeky as heck, and it’s pretty cool that it’s even possible.
You can find more details at ponnuki.net.
via Hacker News
Ssh on the kindle is kinda cool actually.
so the “news” is that you can run ssh on kindle?
a bit lame, isn’t it?