Hello, If you could not tell, I was using the 4.14.x kernel w/ the Adafruit_BBIO library. If you would like any other info, please do not hesitate to chat w/ me on #beagle or here via forum suggestions.
Seth On Saturday, September 22, 2018 at 7:37:46 PM UTC-5, Mala Dies wrote: > > 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 beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/a8cce8c8-64f2-4ba8-a07c-466c541885cd%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
