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SparkFun BeagleBone Black Proto Cape
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DESCRIPTION FEATURES DOCUMENTS
We all know the BeagleBone Black is pretty great, but wouldn’t it be nice to
create personal capes based on your needs? The SparkFun BeagleBone Black
Proto Cape is a great way to prototype or design custom capes and provides
you access to all gpio pins available on the BeagleBone Black. The Proto Cape
easily mates with a BeagleBone Black and gives you a large prototyping area,
two red LEDs for user applications or debugging, and access to a blank
EEPROM that is great for storing pin configuration data.
Each BeagleBone Black Proto Cape offers plenty of space to prototype with .1"
spaced through-holes. There are two power buses provided along with ground
connections on both sides of the board. With this cape you should have no
trouble designing and creating whatever kind of add-on you would like to be
attached to your BeagleBone Black.
Note: This cape does NOT include headers, we want to give you the option of
choosing between which style fits your needs. 2x23 Pin Headers can be found in
the Related Items section below.
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SparkFun BeagleBone Black Proto Cape Product Help and Resources
TUTORIALS SUPPORT TIPS SKILLS NEEDED
BeagleBone Black Proto
Cape Hookup Guide
MAY 22, 2014
Learn how to get started making
your own capes for the
BeaglBone Black using the
BeagleBone Proto Cape.
COMMENTS 22 REVIEWS 3
4 out of 5
Based on 3 ratings:
1 of 1 found this helpful:
Great, except for EEProm address conflicts, questionable documentation
about 3 years ago by Void_Ptr verified purchaser
I like the layout of the board, but something that isn’t really clear is that the default EEPROM address could
conflict with other capes. In particular, I’m referring to the 4.3" 4D systems LCD Cape. The documentation I
found was that the addresses shouldn’t conflict with each other (Proto Cape 0x57, LCD Cape 0x54). But, when
these two capes are put together, the LCD Cape doesn’t work. Suspecting a EEPROM address conflict, I
shorted one of the address pins on the Proto Cape, and now it works. So, regarding the documentation,
YMMV.
Aside from that, this cape works fine, and does what I want.
1 of 2 found this helpful:
Documentation Below Par
about 3 years ago by BallardHill verified purchaser
Mechanically and electrically good quality, but support somewhat lacking.
This product will serve well as a primer for the buyer to learn about developing BBB Capes from the ground up.
But if the intention of the purchase was to use this product as a tool to clean up BBB wiring and move rapidly
toward a specific goal, the documentation is inadequate for this purpose.
An email to SFE Support resulted in a rapid response with a redundant suggestion to read the Hookup Guide.
So, “Okay”, but no better.
Sure, we can Google all day long and eventually find some cogent and complete information, but that means
many customers are forced to repeat the work SFE could have done ONCE to find and provide pertinent URLs.
Single T replied on March 18, 2015:
Hi, Proto boards can be used to build up any circuit or design that you can think of. Our docs go over
setting up the board to plug into the BBB, but for details on a specific use, you will need to do some
research on that subject or project goal. Happy hacking
Perfect for my needs
about 2 years ago by Member #245855 verified purchaser
My team has a few boards of a first-iteration custom-designed cape, on which we did not include the EEPROM
(an oversight on our part!). We used this cape as a retrofit add-on to this custom board to give it self-ID
capability, as well as to store calibration data. Slick!
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