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 adxl335 accelerometer. Beaglebone mounted to the right side of the board from the backside. Power is taken from the beaglebone. The project is currently in funding phase.

Revision A0
Initial release of BeagleBone LCD 5" Cape

Software 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: adxl335 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
 * GPIO3_21
 * LCD_VSYNC
 * LCD_HSYNC
 * LCD_PCLK
 * LCD_DATA[0..23]

Distributors

 * Project info at indiegogo

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