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Re: Battery powered raspberry pi

Your drawings/plans would be a COTS item. The battery box made from them would be a fabricated item & not qualify as a cots item.

The only way this would work under the rules would be having a company build a computer, ("COTs computing device with an integral battery"), using a raspberry PI with a power supply enclosed together. The overhead would not be that high since you could use off the shelf parts for the most part and order them as you need them. Of course you wouldn't know if it was legal until the new rules came out.