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Re: Battery powered raspberry pi
One of the big problems of powering the pi from the robot battery is that the pi needs to be shut down properly. You cannot just cut the power. What I am thinking is that have the Pi connected to the battery directly (through a regulator), and have the Pi watching using it's IO, the status of the battery through the switch. When the power goes down, the pi needs to shut itself down. I forgot to add, you would need to add a reset switch to the power supply of the pi to allow you to turn it back on. NOTE: I DO NOT KNOW WHETHER THIS IS FRC COMPETITON LEGAL, so if someone knows, if they verify, it will be great. We were going to place a pi. For basic I/O, the propeller quickstart beats the pi in many ways. If being used for vision processing, why not just keep the pi with the driver station and use the network connection to function. You can bridge the connection of the laptop ethernet with the pi to get wifi.
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