A new PCB to help interface a Raspberry Pi 4 to your car has come to the market. CarPiHat is a Raspberry Pi Car Interface, changing the power supply voltage to support the Raspberry Pi and add a range of I/Os to the board.
The board conforms to the standard HAT format, including EEPROM for automatic configuration of some device tree overlays. All connections are made with Molex’s heavy-duty, snap-on Molex nanofit connector. The board has the following features:
- 12V – 5V buck converter to power the Pi and touchscreen, with fuse and filtering.
- Safe shutdown circuitry to allow the Pi to control its own power.
- < 1mA current draw when switched off.
- Dedicated reverse, illumination and aux inputs, all opto isolated.
- 2 opto isolated general purpose inputs. (for a total of 5 inputs)
- 2 high current, high side switched 12V outputs (@1A). (for switching relays, lights etc)
- 1 independent CAN bus port.
- Real time clock to maintain system time across reboots.
- Broken out I2C bus.
- Broken out 1W for temperature sensor etc.
- Mounting hardware (4 standoffs and 8 machine screws)
- 5V Power Output for display etc.
Source: https://www.tindie.com/products/tjd/carpihat-raspberry-pi-car-interface-pcb/
Sleep functionality for ModBerry 500 CM4 devices
TECHBASE company designed an extended version of Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 based devices, ModBerry 500-CM4-PM series for better power management in changing conditions of industrial applications. With the use of GPIO the module can manage boot, sleep mode or safe shutdown of the device in terms of unexpected drop in the power network with help of built-in ESP32 module and Arduino environment.
In the last few years developers marketed a wide range of ARM-based development boards, lacking in enhanced power management, especially sleep and wake up modes, commonly used in PC-grade computing. These boards are not adjusted for battery power supply, so it’s natural that sleep/wake functions should be implemented. In connection with the development of solutions based on Linux-SBC, key factor is adding sleep modes to any remote installation
ESP32 based addon module for Raspberry Pi
With built-in algorithms and the possibility to program on your own, the TECHBASE’s sleep/wake addon module can wake the device using a scheduler/timer. The module itself is based on ESP32-WROVER, used in the Moduino X series. ESP32 as a lightweight and low-powered solution is a perfect aid system for Raspberry Pi. Another option is wake on external triggers, e.g. change of input state, etc. All the options for sleep, shutdown and wake can be configured for various scenarios to ensure constant operation of devices, safety of data and continuity of work in case of power failure in any installation.
Sleep mode with additional power backup
Additional power management option for ModBerry devices is sleep functionality enhanced with SuperCap UPS energy backup device. This solution allows programming scenarios including the execution of chosen actions, in order to save data, send a notification and restart/shutdown the controller after completion.
Advanced power management solution
Most advanced configuration includes use of ESP32 module, known from the successful, lightweight Moduino X series, for extra logic for wake up / sleep scripts. This addon will allow the RaspberryPi-based ModBerry device to be woken up by the internal ESP32 controller.
Moduino-ModBerry symbiosis allows a wide range of wake-up/sleep schedule customization, in order to perform best and save energy according to power supply state. Arduino and MicroPython environments provide libraries to control different scenarios of data and power management.
ModBerry 500-CM4-PM availability
The preliminary ModBerry 500-CM4-PM devices are available on request and delivery time will be specified by the Sales Dept. depending on the size of the project. Contact via email or Live Chat here: https://iiot-shop.com/product/modberry-500-cm4-pm/