CrowPi 3 : A Raspberry Pi 5 powered education kit coming soon to Kickstarter
Found this article on the web with a preliminary review. Looking forward to hear all about it with an official annoucement.
In the meantime, I have a few questions after reading that article,
- Is the cooling fan temperature controlled?
- Is it a standard full size HDMI port on the side?
- What is that blocked off USB-A 2.0 being used for?
- How does the camera being connected?
- Does the PCI-e connector on the Pi5 being used?
- How is the on-board 4.3" LCD Touch Display connected? Via HDMI or DSI?
- Will the 18650 Lithium-ion batteries charged when the CrowPi 3 is powered with a power supply?
- If the batteries can be charged, is there a Charge indicator?
- Is there any Battery Power Status indicator?
- Which Raspberry Pi models are compatible?
Hope to hear answers on the above questions from Elecrow!!
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Hi Pearl, thanks for your attention and support in our new product. This is Nina from Elecrow.
Please check answers to your questions listed above:
Cooling fan temperature can't be controlled.
It's standard HDMI port on the side.
The blocked USB-A 2.0 is used to receive camera information, IPS touch screen information, and USB interface information.
Same as question 3.
PCI-e connector on the Pi5 not used.
The onboard 4.3-inch LCD touch screen is connected via a closed USB-A 2.0. Not through the HDMI, or DSI.
Yes the battery will be charged when it's powered with a power supply.It's slow charge when is power on, fast charge when power off.
Yes. When the product is equipped with a battery without charging: red light flashes, indicating a low level, and the product needs to be charged; no light display, indicating a high level, and the product still has a certain amount of power.
When the product is equipped with a battery charging state, there are two situations, the first red light is long, indicating that the electricity is not full; The second type of green light is long, indicating that the electricity is full.
Yes, The power level status is displayed with a battery icon at the top of the screen.
Only Raspberry Pi5.
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