Tom, I appreciate your thoughts on this, but the header connection, which is required for a cape, in my opinion, is a poor long-term connection (stressing long-term here). I'm saying this with years of experience as an electronic technician. Thus the desire for a card that goes directly to terminals rather than the intermediate step of the cape.
Thanks for your thoughts! BBQ On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 6:36 AM, Tom Davies <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tuesday, 15 April 2014 12:28:54 UTC+10, BBQTrader wrote: >> >> Gerald, >> >> I'm working on a Home Automation/Security System project, and am >> developing it for the BBB. I expect it to sit in a box for a long time, >> connected to the network, and connected to various sensors. >> >> I would like to have a board that had physical terminals on it rather >> than the headers, since this would work better for long term projects such >> as a networked home security system. >> > > That sounds like a job a simple cape would do well -- the cape could have > a larger size than the BBB board if you wanted to break out every signal. > > I'm sure there are eagle files available for the standard cape footprint > -- you could very easily lay this out yourself hand have (e.g.) > seeedstudio's PCB service fabricate it. > > The only minor disadvantages would be increased height (but put the screw > terminals on the bottom of the cape if that's important), and an extra > mechanical connection, which theoretically could affect reliability. > > -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/beagleboard/CZkJyj29Gv8/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
