See title. I’m thinking of picking this up to power a pair of speakers but am currently powering my Pi using the GPIO pins. If I install this, will I no longer be able to power the Pi that way? Will I have to use the MicroUSB?
See title. I’m thinking of picking this up to power a pair of speakers but am currently powering my Pi using the GPIO pins. If I install this, will I no longer be able to power the Pi that way? Will I have to use the MicroUSB?
It looks like maybe it comes without the headers preinstalled? If so, you can still power it from there with a stackable header, but you may need to order the stackable header yourself.
Edit: Nevermind, looks like it has a header preinstalled. Still, you can solder wires directly to the exposed pads on the other side probably.
Do you think I could simply solder to the other 5V, 3V, Ground pins for power? Will that power both the audio board and pi? Seems like there are traces between them?
https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-speaker-bonnet-for-raspberry-pi/downloads
Oh yeah, that would be perfectly fine. It would power both the pi and audio board according to this schematic.
Thanks I think I’ll do that