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Another option is to try to find an old and super cheap laptop and use that instead. Maybe find one with a broken screen or busted keyboard or something that y
by Sohcahtoa82 4y ago
Another option is to try to find an old and super cheap laptop and use that instead. Maybe find one with a broken screen or busted keyboard or something that you won't care about.
Laptops basically have a UPS built-in.
- hoherd 4y agoBetter still, do both. Power your Pi off of your laptop server to get the benefits of its built-in battery acting as a UPS for both devices.
- Sohcahtoa82 4y agoIf your laptop's USB ports will provide enough amps, that could work. Doesn't the Pi 3 expect up to 2.5 amps? I imagine some of that is for powering USB ports, so you could probably get away with 1.5 amps if you're not using them, but even that's a lot for laptop USB. I'd be surprised if any offered more than 1 amp.
- dylan604 4y agoThis is essentially what my MBP with butterfly keyboard has been relegated to in life. The keyboard is unusable, it's too expensive to repair, but it's not a shitty enough computer to just throw away, and there's practically no trade-in value either. So, there it sits in a closet, on a top shelf, just acting as a remote device doing random things as I assign it tasks. However, cheap is not how I would have described it ;-)