Off-Grid Cyberdeck with RPI and Pelican Case
That&#x27;s neat looking, but it really strikes me as a kind of cosplay than anything that would actually be useful in any kind of disaster situation:<p>1. If you&#x27;re off the grid, where are you going to get power to run this?<p>2. If there&#x27;s no power grid or internet, you probably have <i>much</i> bigger problems than &quot;how can I browse an offline copy of Wikipedia.&quot;  Those problems would probably last longer than you want to schlep around and item like this.<p>3. I&#x27;m not under the impression that Raspberry Pi&#x27;s are especially durable, though the SD-card storage is probably the weakest link (though both those things probably have benefits of being common things that allow for the scavenging of replacement parts).<p>4. If you need to protect from an EMP, I don&#x27;t think &quot;tinfoil lined cardboard box&quot; will be sufficient.  I was reading up on that a couple of months ago when the war started, and it sounds like little gaps in the shielding can seriously compromise the effectiveness of the sheilding.<p>5. Mil-spec connectors look cool, but if you need to use something like this, you&#x27;ll probably want connectors that are a common as possible.  A connector is useless if you don&#x27;t have anything to plug into it.  Some kind of terminal block would probably make more sense.  Using a male connector seems like a particularly fatal flaw (if you used female, you&#x27;d at least be able to stick wires in the holes in a pinch).<p>If you want to usefully prepare for any doomsday scenario, you probably need to <i>really</i> carefully think about your actual requirements in that scenario, and then build to those requirements.  IMHO, if it&#x27;s an actual doomsday, it&#x27;s probably safe to assume technological society will collapse and not recover for generations, and any high technology would in reality be a short-to-medium term consumable that will break without replacement.