UPS the Olimex way

It's very convenient as a protection on the Beaglebone Black, I leave a Li-Ion cell connected while working, in case I accidentally unplug the DC jack (re-imaging the BBB and re-uploading files takes an hour down-time, so anything that reduces the risk helps).

I seem to remember one of your posts mentioned fitting a Li-Po socket to a BBB, or maybe it was one of selsinork's or Drew's posts, but I can't seem to find it anymore.  If you recall where it was, I'd be obliged for a pointer.

It was here - http://www.element14.com/community/message/76081#76081/l/re-have-a-question-about-the-next-gen-beaglebone-ask-it-here post number 118.

I was going to take another photo, but I eventually found it, it is here.

I've made this mod to one of my boards, and I need to get a connector to do it to the second board too. The battery just comfortably tucks in.

EDIT: Sorry, was slow with my post, looks like Brian found it!

Excellent, thank you folks!  And it's good to have shabaz's nice writeup linked to a thread that's battery-related, as it would be a shame for it to get lost.  I've added an extra "battery" tag now too.

Sometimes I think the forum needs an index.

PS. I doubt that anyone would complain if you reposted your article to the BBB blog as well for greater visibility.

Morgaine Dinova wrote:

 

Sometimes I think the forum needs an index.

I thought coder27 was the index

shabaz wrote:

 

re-imaging the BBB and re-uploading files takes an hour down-time, so anything that reduces the risk helps

that's why you have two (or more), one to work on, one that's being re-imaged

seriously though, it seems that the defaults have been changed so that if the uboot in emmc sees a SD card it'll let that boot without needing to hold the button.. so in a lot of ways it's actually easier to experiment with stuff when booted from uSD and re-imaging a uSD card is typically much quicker than putting angstrom back onto emmc.

selsinork wrote:

 

I thought coder27 was the index

Haha, there's more than a little truth to that, but it should be capitalized:  The Index.  He's good at gathering facts from a myriad sources together.