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Re: Battery powered raspberry pi

To solve the boot time issue - perhaps put a circuit inline with the Pi's power that will use a dedicated battery until the robots mains come online? Two diodes and a capacitor will do or one can get fancy with a circuit based on something like the MAX6236.

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