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Re: Teams that have used a Raspberry Pi

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Originally Posted by Billfred View Post
Adding onto this: the stock Pi was not designed to be absolutely beat to hell, as robots did to it in FIRST Stronghold. 4901's Pi's microSD slot wouldn't retain the card by the end of its first event, at which point we abandoned it because of other priorities. Plan for some mechanical protection and shock relief when you mount it; at the minimum, make it hard for the power and microSD connections to fail.
I bet if you were willing to permanently affix the sd card in it's slot somehow (whether with a bracket of some kind or like just epoxying it in place) you could just use SSH or command over the gpio to update the software when needed.
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