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?
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Thanks for the suggestion, unfortunately I don’t have a choice. It comes pre-soldered according to the description. There does seem to be other power and ground pins on the board according to the schematic. I’ll try using those
That 3x3 grid to the left is marked 5v/3v/GND. Can you not use those?
Yep, I saw that eventually and on the schematic there are traces connecting them to the correct gpio pins on the pi
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
