Battery pack

[JoeyJoeJo]

According to Wikipedia, the raspberry pi can accept power input from the GPIO pins. Is that true? If so, and I could hook up a lithium battery to the GPIO pins, could it be charged via the pi's micro USB port?

[malakai]

According to Wikipedia, the raspberry pi can accept power input from the GPIO pins. Is that true?

Yes everything on the Wiki is true

If so, and I could hook up a lithium battery to the GPIO pins

Yes depends on the battery I suppose

could it be charged via the pi's micro USB port?

Yes but not at the same time it's powering the Pi and it actually depends on how much power it needs to be charged

[texy]

According to Wikipedia, the raspberry pi can accept power input from the GPIO pins. Is that true? If so, and I could hook up a lithium battery to the GPIO pins, could it be charged via the pi's micro USB port?

That is the opposite way to the way things normally run with the pi - it is usual to power the pi by the micro usb port, and to supply (limited) power to peripherals via the GPIO port.
Not sure what you are expecting if you want to power and charge the same battery via the pi?

Texy

[joan]

Yes, you can power the Pi from the P1 pins (+5V and ground).

No, don't connect a lithium battery directly to the pins, you need to supply 5V which the battery probably doesn't. Use a UBEC or similar to convert the battery output to 5V.

Charge the battery via the micro USB? No.