[Vm-dev] Cog + Pi + OSProcess

[Louis LaBrunda]

Hi Tim,

How about a small battery back up that can signal the software that it need to save and
shutdown cleanly when it loses power.

Lou

On Fri, 17 Jun 2016 09:52:01 -0700, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:

>> On 17-06-2016, at 2:33 AM, Phil (list) <pbpublist at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> My biggest complaint is the things have no power/reset
>> switch out of the box (it is possible to add via a DIY mod) but other
>> than that, it's a quite useful little device for Smalltalk!
>
>I’m inclined to agree, but my attempted solution is to start work on a HAT that would provide
>a) power input from a wider range of PSUs with a switchmode regulator etc
>b) cooling (for heavily worked Pi3’s particularly - I did manage to work one so hard it just shut down)
>c) power/reboot switch
>d) (maybe) a basic ADC
>e) (maybe) some other small missing item
>
>It’s very up in the air right now, might be a first attempt at a kickstarter etc. Anyone here interested?
>
>tim
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