Hello, I bought me a MotorCape made for BeagleBoard.org from GHI on Mouser.com. This thing is cool. It is powered by whatever up to 46V. One thing to mention is that the BBB... should be plugged in via barrel jack (vdd_5v) instead of USB (sys_5v) when applying your software to run w/ the MotorCape attached. For example:
BBB -> barrel jack or other form of 5v supply from the barrel jack MotorCape -> 12VDC -> two, 12v DC motors Now... ... The board works out of the box. I had some complication at first b/c I thought, for my own personal reasons which were 100% incorrect, the BBB could be tested w/ the MotorCape attached via sys_5v. Oops! Look, I cannot go into how many people I harassed over this issue. You can still, of course, connect the BBB via USB for programming and software development to apply to your new Cape (or at least I have). Seth P.S. If you get "board" of reading this post b/c no one will inevitably reply (hopefully they will), see this site: https://www.hackster.io/silver2row/motorcape-and-the-bbbw-can-make-motors-move-0d7e55 and https://github.com/silver2row/motocape. -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/9716ef9b-34a1-4cbb-9cff-924d719aef36%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
