[chbot] Next Robotics meeting, 17th Sept 2018 : ARM special

[Spencer Travers]

My guess is that the I/O pin on the Pi was accidentally connected to the
common pin of the switch. Flicking the switch then caused 5V to be directly
connected to the Pi's IO pin that was being driven low at the time.

On Mon, Sep 3, 2018 at 12:18 PM Volker Kuhlmann <list57 at top.geek.nz> wrote:

> I'll bring some ARM devices with me.
>
>
> For boot loader remote debugging I set up 2 RPis, with one switching the
> power of the other. I used a 3-position slide switch, for off, on,
> I/O-pin, to switch the gate of a p-channel MOSFET. This turned out to be
> a bad idea. Why? ;-)
> First prize of a completely dead RPi to the person with the correct
> answer, haha...
>
> Volker
>
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