Bacon Cape

= Description =

General Information
The Bacon Cape is an accessory board design to be used with the BeagleBone Black or original BeagleBone (aka White). The Bacon Cape was designed to provide hardware examples of some of the basic input/output features of the BeagleBone products.

Features

 * PWM controlled Red/Green/Blue LED
 * GPIO Output controlled 7 Segment LED display ( Requires DT overlays pin 87 44e1095c gpio0[4], pin 86 44e10958 gpio0[5])
 * ADC input using a variable resistor slider potentiometer
 * GPIO input using a button

Reference Material

 * PWM Tutorial
 * 595 Tutorial
 * 7 Segment Display Character Mapping
 * Short Video on the Bacon Board at Design West
 * Gadget Factory Blog post on the Bacon

= Design =

Components

 * Triple axis accelerometer MMA8452Q ([[media:mma8452q.pdf|datasheet]]) for Rev A Version
 * Single tricolored through-hole RGB LED ([[media:rgb-led.pdf|datasheet]]) for DW Version
 * Single tricolored surface mount RGB LED ([[media:rgb-led-smd.pdf|datasheet]]) for Rev A Version
 * 74HC595 Serial Shift Register ([[media:74hc595.pdf|datasheet]])
 * 7 Segment Display ([[media:7seg-display.pdf|datasheet]]) for DW Version
 * 7 Segment Display ([[media:7seg-display.pdf|datasheet]]) for RevA Version
 * 10k Slider Potentiometer ([[media:10k-slider.pdf|datasheet]])
 * NPN Transistor MMBT2222A ([[media:mmbt2222a.pdf|datasheet]])
 * Button

Design Files

 * [[media:bacon-dw-version.pdf|Bacon Design West Version Schematic]]
 * [[media:bacon-reva.pdf|Bacon Cape Revision A Schematic]]
 * Changed to a surface mounted RGB LED
 * Changed to a smaller 7-segment display
 * Changed to a CAT24C256W EEPROM
 * Added MMA8452Q triple axis accelerometer

Test Files

 * [[media:bacon-test.sh|Bacon Test Shell script]] - shell script to test all the basic i/o functions of the Bacon
 * [[media:bacon-dt-files.tgz|Bacon DT files]] - dts and dtbo files for bacon-education configuration
 * C Library for Bacon Cape, written by Pedro Bertoleti

=Distributors=
 * Boardzoo (USA)
 * Digi-Key (USA)
 * Arrow (USA)