Raspberry Pi from regulated 6v or 12v?

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Raspberry Pi from regulated 6v or 12v?

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I am looking at making an enclosed project that will use the pi and the 3.5in display from adafruit. I'm still fairly new to working with electronic components, but wanted to see if there were recommendations on best ways to accomplish powering both devices from a single power supply. The display requires 6v or 12v.

My current thought is to use a 12V power source, common rail providing ground and power to the display, then off the common rail to a 12V to 5V 1A regulator, then on to the pi.

My understanding is the pi can be powered via the gpio pins, but I'm not entirely sure on this..

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Re: Raspberry Pi from regulated 6v or 12v?

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That sounds like it ought to work. You can power the pi through the GPIO pins

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Re: Raspberry Pi from regulated 6v or 12v?

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Ok, cool, thanks for the confirmation on powering through GPIO. Looks like I'll be building my first legitimately useful board to regulate the power then. thanks!

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