Patrick

The photo shows my original plan for placement of the lipo battery, but now I'm wondering if it might need to be backpack mounted instead to reach the balance plug and swap out for a mains adapter when used indoors. I'm hoping the MoPi board software can be set to ignore power outages of less than a preset duration. If so I can swap out the power supply without the RasPi going into shutdown, but it would be good to get the whole setup working more like a laptop as far as power management goes.

In any case, it should be good enough to start testing with once I can get the printer to run long enough to make the head panels, but if anyone has any advice on power management it would be appreciated. I'm basically learning most of this as I go.

About half of the new parts have arrived, so far they all seem to be working fine. The selectable IR-cut adapter for the NoIR camera in particular is just about perfect, only tested it a little so far but with the filter closed the colours are a lot more vivid. It doesn't need a lot of current to open and close so I'll probably just put a mini h-bridge somewhere. Still working on what to replace the dartgun with, so far ideas include a 100w LED, extra speaker, or a set of connectors for an oscilloscope script. If anyone has any ideas let me know. Also trying to find replacement screws for the RAD series if anyone knows of a source.