“I am still curious how much glass would affect the signal,” he tells us. Matt’s Mason Jar Preserve connects via Ethernet, but you could use WiFi. A few trips to Home Depot for antique drawer pulls, some rubber feet, brackets and screws, and that was it.” It fit, even with a little room to spare!” Building the Mason Jar Preserve was fairly straightforward: “I used a saw to cut the base into a square, a sander to round it off, and a drill to make the LED, Ethernet, and power holes. One day I just grabbed the largest jar and slid the Pi inside. The idea came to Matt at work: “I had a few various-sized Mason jars sitting around. “In my great-grandmother’s basement, there were shelves and shelves of various-sized jars filled with everything from pickled beets to you-name-it preserves.” But rather than preserve tasty foodstuffs, Matt’s Mason jar preserves Matt’s family memories. Who doesn’t want tasty fried okra in February?
“Mason jars allowed for foods that were harvested in the summer to last all year round.
“They are industrial-grade glass jars with a sealable lid that were originally used at home to preserve foods throughout the winter,” says Matt. The Raspberry Pi-powered Mason Jar Preserve is the most stylish backup solution we’ve ever seen.Īt this point, The MagPi’s non-US readers might be wondering what on earth a Mason jar is.
Matt Reed, a professional web developer and maker from West Virginia, has created this amazing project.