Thanks for sharing. I need to find a moment to put notes on usage up on the site, but seems you figured it all out. The VDD_5V usage had some reasoning in pulling current direct from the barrel jack or PowerCape, rather than through the PMIC.
>From a consistently viewpoint, I have my doubts if this is the best way to go. >The 5V current should be pretty low since there is separate power for the >motors themselves. Let me know your thoughts. > On Sep 22, 2018, at 8:38 PM, Mala Dies <fun...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > I forgot to mention: The Cape works well w/ the Adafrui_BBIO library which > can be found here: https://github.com/adafruit/adafruit-beaglebone-io-python. > > 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/c1f40c6e-3342-4009-9cf3-c64fd0040de6%40googlegroups.com. > 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 beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/7157A52F-E2B2-4529-91CE-EC1FBE49EFCF%40gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
