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Good news and bad news. Soldered up my new Explorer pHat and Pi Zero W and did a quick test using a 2.5A power supply and my rover turned Ok on a smooth surface. Stalled out on a carpet though. Put the power boost and battery back in and its back to not turning again. Just a tiny jerk moment and the motors stall out. Unplugged the power boost and plugged the power supply back in, same deal, stalls out. Removed the battery and it turns Ok. One step forward two steps back. Looks like I'll have to get a smaller lighter battery? The one I have is a brut, 6600 MAH.
This has definitely been my most frustrating projects so far. almost all the way through. I will persevere though. I'll build two, two wheel rovers if I have to, lol.
just what you waiting for i thik
Launched today: the Raspberry Pi 3B+ : an incremental performance and capability upgrade Raspberry Pi Pod
Maybe? I'll have to have a god look see. Here's the news right from the horses mouth, https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/ras...s-sale-now-35/
https://www.raspberrypi.org/products...-model-b-plus/
The big gains from a 3B to 3B+ to me seem to be the networking. Wireless is now dual band and a lot faster throughput. Ethernet is faster too. Still not up to full speed, compared to a PC, but a lot better. They switched to the cavity antenna like the Zero W too. Which is better than the little chip antenna on the "now" old 3B. The POA stuff means nothing to me, not something I'll ever use. I see it mentioned quit often on the Pi forum though, so some wanted it.
New Raspbian stretch images are up to support this, https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/ I'm downloading them, I'm not redoing any of my cards with them just yet though. Need to look at the cahng log to see if anything else was added on top of 3B+ support.
2018-03-13:
* Raspberry Pi 3 B+ support
* WiFi is disabled until wireless regulatory domain is set (Pi 3 B+ only)
- The domain can be done through 'Raspberry Pi Configuration' (rc_gui),
'raspi-config' or by setting 'country=' to an appropriate ISO 3166
alpha2 country code in /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf.
* Default wireless regulatory domain is now unset
* Added support to desktop for different screen sizes and resolutions,
including multiple preset options in Appearance Settings and pixel doubling
option in Raspberry Pi Configuration
* Version 2.1.16 of Thonny included
* Version 29.0.0.113 of Adobe PepperFlash player included
* Version 1.2.post1 of Pygame Zero included
* Bluetooth plugin now supports connection to Bluetooth LE HID devices
* Network plugin now indicates 5G-compatible APs
* Latest changes to Bluez ALSA service merged
- service now started on CLI boot as well as GUI boot
* Latest changes to dhcpcd networking plugin merged
* Improved support for running on pi-top devices
* Small design changes to PiX theme and icons
* Bug fix - hide spurious window resize handles
* Bug fix - Scratch 2 remote GPIO state block now works correctly
* Updated WiFi Firmware
- brcmfmac43455-sdio 7.45.154
- brcmfmac43430-sdio 7.45.98.38
* New packages:
- policykit-1
- obconf
- python-buttonshim python3-buttonshim
- python-unicornhathd python3-unicornhathd
- python-pantilthat python3-pantilthat
* Linux kernel 4.9.80+
* Raspberry Pi firmware 3347884c7df574bbabeff6dca63caf686e629699