The embedded video at http://content.jwplatform.com/players/7vLOx4GD-5Zdv3OJ1.html isn’t working for me with Firefox on Win81/

If you are myopic, you should wear glasses to ride a bike :-) :-)

I can’t see any picture or link above, if I try the one Dougie sent I can see the video using Win7, Firefox and after I installed the latest Abode flash update.

As astute readers have noticed, we haven’t actually succeeded in bringing you the video. That shouldn’t put you off digging into the project over at IEEE Spectrum; it’s a nice one! Video reinstated. Thanks Clive!

Now all he needs is a 3D printed holder for the kindle and a water bottle stash for his pi with a connector in the bottom that as he slides it in to the holder makes connection and he can have a more portable solution.

I’d live to replicate this for use on a small sailboat. any chance we can get more detail??

That’s a lot of faith to put in a rubber band.

From personal experience, I have to declare This is Positively Dangerous!
In my youth, my front forks were hardly ever straight, mainly due to to my lack of attention to the road ahead (there were quite a lot of stationary cars that acquired bike-wheel-shaped dents, and my forehead has taken on an Aztec aspect from contact with rear windows)
Encouraging cyclists to stare fixedly downwards goes against all H&S codes of practice.
Perhaps a head-up display could be attached?

What was the purpose of the 2nd reed switch? Did it log how many times the front cog (sorry, I’m sure there’s a technical term for that) is turned? As a non-cyclist I’m wondering why one might want to know that?

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o3B601Ndsg&quot; This clip was in the news recently. Ouch, bruised ego methinks.

Myopic is nearsighted.
Hyperopic is farsighted.

The large font size is probably good for both…

All the H&S doubters just need to get a pair of google glasses – then you’ve got a Heads Up display on your bike! Problem solved :-) Maybe even Gordon would approve…

Now if he can rebuild it from a pi compute module, a tiny li-battery and make it from carbon fibre and titanium, sculpt it in a wind tunnel and make it weigh 3.82g he could sell them for £10k a piece to middle aged IT consultants to ride carbon fibre bikes very slowly :-)

And the next thing you know these IT guy’s might just a camera pointing forward to translate the world surrounding them into the Minecraft world. Turning people into creepers, cars as lump of rock or any similar obstacles.
Just to help them avoid said obstacles.

Humm, Translating real world into the Minecraft world…

Would not it be easier to use a tablet with 3G , then just use the Strava or Runtastic Road?

Awesome! I NEED one (or two).

I’d love to see a how-to.. I don’t have the money for an expensive bike computer, so I think this is a great idea.. only thing I’d change is the wifi -> kindle.

This is a wonderful idea, I currently use a spare android phone for the same job as it has all the kit built into one small thing that fits into my pocket and can be removed and taken away easy but id like to use my kindle to read like this and use the pi as a remote streaming camera with 2 hd 720p wide angle usb cameras and also you can use the phone as a hotspot and have team speak so all the riders can do simple radio communication or push to talk with a handle bar button and a headset mic

Love to the Pi community

I was working in the same … Thanks for sharing !!

For all the guys who attempted the hardware hack on the paper white kindles and only got text. meh!
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Right on! Great idea. I need it. I need it now!
The irony is the ownership of one of these old kindles came into my possession last week.
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Now to trace the software for the methodology.