Nh5cape

Descriptions
The Nh5cape is a LCD extension for beaglebone / beaglebone black. The 5" LCD is mounted in the plastic case to the top side of the board. Resolution: 800x480, 24 bit color, PWM backlight control, multitouch capacitive touchscreen. Additionally board provides 4 user buttons and header for adafruit adxl345 accelerometer. Beaglebone mounted to the right side of the board from the backside. Power is taken from the beaglebone.

Revision A0
Initial release of BeagleBone LCD 5" Cape

Revision A1
Cape now consists of 3 separate boards: stackable cape, LCD adapter, and buttons board. Removed support of adxl345

Software Support

 * Ubuntu with Kernel 3.15 support
 * Ubuntu with Kernel 3.8 (device tree) support.
 * Rowboat android with Kernel 3.2 support.
 * Available: patches to the current kernel, images of ubuntu and android.
 * Kernel supports LCD, backlight, multitouch capacitive touch, adxl335.
 * Note: adxl345 is not yet supported in Android core, only at kernel level.

Specifications
Followings are some specifications of the BeagleBone LCD 5" Cape:

Signal Usage
The BeagleBone LCD 5" Cape uses 41 signals including:
 * VDD_3V3EXP
 * VDD_5V
 * DGND
 * EHRPWM1A
 * GPIO1_16
 * GPIO1_19
 * I2C2_SCL
 * I2C2_SDA
 * GPIO1_17
 * GPIO3_19
 * GPIO3_16
 * GPIO3_19
 * GPIO0_31 (removed in rev. A1)
 * GPIO3_21
 * LCD_VSYNC
 * LCD_HSYNC
 * LCD_PCLK
 * LCD_DATA[0..23]

Software
http://elinux.org/Nh5capeSoftware

Distributors
Distributors are welcome at victor.0xf at gmail.com
 * Auctiva store

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