Beagleboard:Caraneacancape

Descriptions

The BeagleBone LCD3 Cape provides a portable LCD solution with touchscreen capability for BeagleBone boards. The 3.5" TFT LCD screen, attached to the topside of the board, can display up to a resolution of 320x240 and is a 4-wire resistive touchscreen. The board is equipped with seven switches located at finger-friendly positions. These switches include power, reset, and five user switches, which are mapped to different GPIO signals. The backside of the cape is where a BeagleBone can be mounted.

FAQ

Please visit our Caranea page for additional help.

Revision 1

Initial release of Caranea Can Cape

Software Support

• Caranea Can Cape is supported by Angstrom release 06-18-12 onward.

• Major BeagleBone image releases can be downloaded here.
• Intermediate BeagleBone image releases can be downloaded here

Getting Started

Required setup:

• A Caranea Can Cape
• A BeagleBone (with supported software)
• DB-9 to OBD II Cable

Following the instructions below to start using your Caranea Can Cape:

1. Mount the Caranea Can Cape to the connectors of the BeagleBone Black.
2. Don't plug in a 5V DC power supply to the DC connector, use only 12V power supply via DB-9.
3. Copy “CANCAPE-00A0.dtbo” file into /lib/firmware
4. echo CANCAPE > /sys/devices/bone_capemgr.9/slots
5. Type dmesg and you should see: mcp251x spi1.0: mode 0, irq 259, awake 1, clkout 1, oscillator freq 16000000 mcp251x spi1.0 can1: probed
6. After you have to bring CAN0 interface up: ip link set can0 type can bitrate 125000, ip link set can0 up

You can start using the board.

Specifications

Followings are some specifications of the Caranea Can Cape:

Electrical Specifications

Power	7-42V via OBD II
CAN	1 CAN Bus Transreceiver

Mechanical Specifications

Size	4.00" x 2.50"
Layers	4
PCB Thickness	.062"

Distributors

• Caranea (Germany)

Product Images

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  BeagleBone LCD3

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  Bottom side

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  A2 Bottom side

Documentations

Hardware Files

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