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Originally Posted by marshall
I don't think my suggestion will do either personally and it *might* just help a lot of teams who are struggling to deal with power-hungry games that demand power-hungry drivetrains and power-hungry mechanisms and power-hungry co-processor vision systems. I dare say, it might even inspire some students.
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I don't think powering your 10W raspberry pi off a separate battery is really going to noticeably reduce the power consumption of your 6-CIM drive robot. While I am aware that there are much more power hungry co-processors out there and that is probably what you are referring to, none of them come close to 337W. Either way, the GDC has changed a lot of rules over the past few seasons encouraging teams to understand the power limitations of their robot and to design accordingly (less motor count limits, getting rid of max servo power (kind of)). Just like you shouldn't power your drive train off of 6 CIMs and 10 miniCIMs even though you can (at least based on motor limits and PDP slots), if that vision system really wrecks your power consumption, maybe you should select something that is less power-hungry or reduce your power consumption elsewhere on your robot.