Were developing a set of accessories for the LattePanda that aim to address some shortcomings that have been highlighted on the forum.
So far ideas we are developing include:
FPC Extension Board
This will extend the FPC connection from the 7" display and touch overlay
DC Barrel Jack Adapter/Power Shield Adapter
To sidestep power limitations from the microUSB and prevent random brownouts
Aluminium Case With Passive Heatsink
For effective passive cooling and robust protection
Display Stand with fan
For exhibitions or to show off your LattePanda
If there are any features you would like to suggest for these products, or any other accessories that you think are a good idea, let us know in this thread.
[DISCUSSION] Accessory Ideas
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Enjoy Tinkering with LattePanda ! 
I'm interested in the power shield. Will you add a lipo battery power/ manager to the shield?
And maybe a header for a reset / per button? Together with the auto boot on power on it would be nice.
What will be the input range? Is it also possible with this shield to supply 12v?
And maybe a header for a reset / per button? Together with the auto boot on power on it would be nice.
What will be the input range? Is it also possible with this shield to supply 12v?
I realize this may be hard to do but the option to add Ardunio board shields to your platform would be a big feature. I currently program on the Ardunio platform using the Ardunio IDE and C but would like to use VS and C# to write my GPIO apps.
You could add a shield for the Nano, Uno and Mega to give your customers a good choice of GPIO pins. Or if you had to choose only one, I guess the middle ground Uno would work fine (I'd prefer to see the Mega as I always need the extra IO pins).
Thanks...
You could add a shield for the Nano, Uno and Mega to give your customers a good choice of GPIO pins. Or if you had to choose only one, I guess the middle ground Uno would work fine (I'd prefer to see the Mega as I always need the extra IO pins).
Thanks...
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LattePanda
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yes this is a good idea. actually some members of the community are doing this now - see this kickstarter update for one example.rfresh737 wrote:I realize this may be hard to do but the option to add Ardunio board shields to your platform would be a big feature. I currently program on the Ardunio platform using the Ardunio IDE and C but would like to use VS and C# to write my GPIO apps.
You could add a shield for the Nano, Uno and Mega to give your customers a good choice of GPIO pins. Or if you had to choose only one, I guess the middle ground Uno would work fine (I'd prefer to see the Mega as I always need the extra IO pins).
Thanks...
Enjoy Tinkering with LattePanda !
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space cops
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any word on the display extension board? it was mentioned it will come January 2017
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space cops
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any word about the display fpc extension board?
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space cops
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any word about the display fpc extension board? it was said they would come out soon
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Joshharold
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can you make a specal 4A power supply so we don't haft to worrie about over using the 2.0 one and also can you make boards without the arduino and instead have like a better processor or a full serial port ect.