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A project log for LiFePO4wered/Pi

LiFePO4 battery / UPS / power manager for Raspberry Pi

patrick-van-oosterwijckPatrick Van Oosterwijck 08/11/2016 at 22:561 Comment

Well that was quick! Thank you Colorado Tech Shop! :)

Luis personally brought me the first article of their build to check for any defects. Looking good!

This is how they look when freed from the panel:

So I build one up to test whether everything works--no problems! Here's the first boot of a production #LiFePO4wered/Pi:

Hurray! Luis said he'll build the rest either tomorrow or early next week.

So what's left? Some minor improvements to the firmware:

And on the host software:

And of course: documentation. This thing has quite a lot of features and I think it's important that people can actually figure out how to use them. I'm not going to keep people from being able to buy them until the documentation is perfect, but there needs to be a minimum to prevent frustration. There's never a second chance to make a good first impression. :)

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Renos wrote 08/12/2016 at 10:32 point

Can't wait for it to be available for buying :)

Nice work

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