Post : Making the Arduino sleep the long sleep
URL : http://hackaday.com/2012/08/18/making-the-arduino-sleep-the-long-sleep/
Posted : August 18, 2012 at 9:01 am
Author : Caleb Kraft
Tags : arduino, low power
Categories : arduino hacks, HackIt

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Earlier this week, I showed you [Naim Busek's] kickstarter for his turn signal helmet (http://hackaday.com/2012/08/17/turn-signals-on-your-head/) . In that article I explained that, while the helmet is a neat idea, I was really interested in what [Naim] had told me about his power consumption. To put it the shortest way, he has made his arduino sleep so efficiently, it can be waiting for input longer than the battery's optimum shelf life.

After that article, [Naim] wrote in to give me the details on what he did to achieve such an efficient system. You can read his entire explanation, un altered here.

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