thank you, gerald. very helpful to know what is in the cards and what is not.
---- Ivo Welch ([email protected]) http://www.ivo-welch.info/ J. Fred Weston Professor of Finance Anderson School at UCLA, C519 Director, UCLA Anderson Fink Center for Finance and Investments Free Finance Textbook, http://book.ivo-welch.info/ Editor, Critical Finance Review, http://www.critical-finance-review.org/ On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 6:28 AM, Gerald Coley <[email protected]>wrote: > You would be better off just adding an external RTC. There are > capes available that add a RTC. Any battery that was adequate to keep > the board up for shutdown would be more than a typical RTC would require. > The isn't enough space on the board to add a rechargeable battery that > large. > > I have no plans to make these changes, but thanks for the input. > > Gerald > > > On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 5:10 PM, ivo welch <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> I love this little device. thanks to jason and team for putting this >> together. >> >> I have only one feature suggestion (complaint): I wish there was a teeny >> battery or supercapacitor on this device. >> >> first, I would prefer to keep the RTC running on powerdown. second, and >> more importantly, with a battery, it could provide 5 seconds of power after >> a powerdown to flush (sync) buffers to the sd card, so I would not have to >> constantly flush buffers manually in order to have my data logged before my >> robot ran into the wall. having to flush manually constantly slows down >> what I can do tremendously. >> >> ok, I admit that I am not the ideal target user for which the BBB was >> designed. I am not a hardware enthusiast. however, another $10 for a >> version of the BBB with a battery already built-in and just 5 seconds of >> guaranteed power (or, even better, a powerdown signal to the OS and 5 >> seconds) would be ideal for me. >> >> is there a chance that a small battery could make it into the next >> revision? >> >> /iaw >> >> -- >> For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "BeagleBoard" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/beagleboard/s3VoyPS5g3c/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
