Okay, so you may have seen that I’m having all sorts of firmware problems with BrickPi3. Turns out it may not be a firmware problem. It may be a hardware problem.
But apart from all that after 3 days of using the BrickPI3 and trying to get it to work, I have melted a battery pack (i,e, BrickPi connected to USB mouse, keyboard and webcam) powered by the battery pack - melted battery within 30 mins. Really melted it… battery case very hot to touch, softened and acid bubbled out and leaked onto my desk. I’ve lost a few layers of skin from my fingertips from the battery acid.
Since then the microUSB port for connection to mains power has become deformed, so the connection isn’t stable - I’ve got the mains cable taped to the back of the box trying to hold it in place.
This is really awful design.