Whilst looking at the Furby schematic, I noticed the ability to cut power to various components to increase battery life.
Has anyone looked at what can be done on the Edison?
Whilst looking at the Furby schematic, I noticed the ability to cut power to various components to increase battery life.
Has anyone looked at what can be done on the Edison?
I have not. I would guess limit current draw on GPIO use. Shut down unused areas (not sure what that would be). If you can shutdown USB.
Kevin Darrah from YouTube has lots of Arduino power saving mode, but a microprocessor is different in that it does not need to run an OS that is not intended to be shutdown and does not boot fast.
Turn off Bluetooth if you are not using it.
rfkill block Bluetooth
I spotted the following which suggests the main Linux CPU can be shut down and then woken using the MCU
https://software.intel.com/en-us/node/557354#Waking_up_the_host_CPU_using_the_MCU
Here's some stuff
https://communities.intel.com/thread/61067
And even more stuff here
Measurement of power consumption of Intel Edison in different operation modes / Geek magazine