Sleepy Pi 2 – USB-C

Description Show Reviews Maximise the Battery Life on Your Raspberry Pi Key Features Daughter board for RPi Zero / ZeroW, A+ or B+,Rpi 2 or Rpi3B/3B+ ->Plugs into the RPi GPIO 5.5 30V Power / Battery input Arduino ATMEGA328P On / Off Power control to Raspberry Pi RTC Battery backed Real-time clock with Alarms Wake-up on Demand multiple sources i.e input change, timed, etc GPIO Breakout Raspberry Pi & Arduino GPIO, Analogue, PWM headers Current Monitor Measure the Raspberry Pi current consumption Plug-in Blankets extend functionality Raspberry Pi add-on board for Smart Power Management and additional GPIO. Run Raspberry Pi onBattery Power Extend RPi battery life from hours -> weeks / months Deep Sleep, with Wake on Event or Time On-board Arduinofor user programs Adds Arduino Analogue & PWM IO Battery-backed Real-Time clock / calendar Avoid SD Card corruption with proper shutdown Works with all 40-pin Raspberry Pi Models (Zero/W, A+, B+/Rpi2, Rpi3B/3B+ and Rpi 4) Why do you need Power Management? Imagine, youve just created your firstRaspberry Piproject and youre really proud of yourself. You pat yourself on the back, box it up, plug in the batteries and send your baby out into the Big Wide World. Success! Hurrah! However..6 hours later your marvellous creation has stopped working, worse still the SD card with all your code on, that took days to debug, has corrupted. No problem, youll buy new batteries and restore the SD from backup. You DO have a backup, right?? Battery Hungry The Raspberry Pi is a fantastically powerful, small and cute computer. Ideal for portable, battery powered applications. But its not designed for battery power! For example, the Raspberry Pi Model 3B does not have a direct battery input and consumes around500mA of current during normal operation. Put another way, if you provide it with a regulator to use batteries, typical AA battery packs will only give you a couple of hours use ( see the Raspberry Pi Battery Life Calculator ). The Raspberry Pi has NOLOWPOWER MODE! Many applications do not need the Pi to be powered at all times and could benefit from emulating the typical low power strategies common in modern microcontroller systems. How It Works Do you know how most modern devices save power? They switch to a low power sleep mode whenever theyre not being used and wake only when they next need to do something. The Sleepy Pi replicates this type of behaviour on the RPi. It allows the RPi to shut itself down when its not being used to save power and wakes it up when its got work to do (get back to work!) either at timed intervals or when some real-world signal cries out for attention. For example, youve got a long term Timelapse project in mind. You want to snap a picture every 10 minutes and store it. It takes about 10 secs to snap and store. What does the RPi do with the other 9mins and 50 seconds??? Run your batteries downor waste some more mains electricity? It’s also an Arduino…and an IO Board too! Heard about theArduino? Its a natty little microcontroller thats easy toprogramand learn hardware coding on. The Sleepy Pi packs an ATMega328P running at 8Mhz. Easily program this from the Raspberry Pi itself using the free tools no extra equipment to get. With aRaspberry PiANDanArduinoin the same box, youvegot someserious powerat your fingertips. What about some more I/O? The Sleepy Pi adds even moreI/O and adds Analogue Inputs and PWM Outputs that the Raspberry Pi doesnt have. Now you can measure real-world signals and sensors,control servos And a Real-Time Clock! Keep track of time even when you are off-line. Want to power up the Raspberry Piat a certain time or take a timed measurement? No problem. The Sleepy Pi has a Real-time clock (RTC) than is backed up by a battery and can even sync the clock on the Raspberry Pi. And a Current Monitor! The Sleepy Pi can measure how much current the Raspberry Pi draws. This can be used to optimise how much power the Raspberry Pi is actually using and optimise it. Expandable The sleepy Pi has a prototyping area and set of expansion headers so that you can easily plug in extra circuitry, like the forthcoming range of blankets Typical Applications: Off-grid Remote Cameras Time-lapse photography Datalogging Wildlife Monitoring & Surveys Hardware Watchdog Monitor for Software Hangs IOT Sensors Anything where the RPidoesntneed to be always on! Download Sleepy Pi 2 USB-C Schematic 0 Reviews Hide Reviews Show Reviews