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Re: Linux-Powered Robots and Flexible Programming

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Originally Posted by Astronouth7303
I actually blogged about this some time ago. I'm glad to see someone's tried it!
Regarding power, we've successfully powered our embedded chip of choice (Gumstix + CF + Serial) with a 12V-5V DC regulator, which should be allowed in the rules (harmless, 500mA max) as custom electronics. Worse comes to worse, we'll use the 5V from a few digital IO pins, lol.
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