[Vm-dev] Cog + Pi + OSProcess

Eliot Miranda eliot.miranda at gmail.com
Sat Jun 18 00:34:20 UTC 2016



> On Jun 17, 2016, at 10:09 AM, Louis LaBrunda <Lou at Keystone-Software.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 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.

+1

> 
> 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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> Louis LaBrunda
> Keystone Software Corp.
> SkypeMe callto://PhotonDemon
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