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Beast power pHAT

This board is designed to supply power to each Raspberry Pi (RPi) on a Beast tile with a daisy chain topology to reduce the complexity of cabling. It connects to each RPi through its GPIO header, exposing all the pins with a stacking header to allow another HAT attached on top.

In this first iteration, the board needs a 24V@10A power supply so it can be daisy chained to up to 12 RPis. The final version is expected to allow an input voltage range from 12V to 24V.

The only manufacturing constrain of this board is that it needs 2oz or higher copper weight.

Raspberry Pi HAT outline taken from here and inductor footprint from here.

This project was designed with KiCad open source EDA suite.