[beagleboard] Re: BBB 24-bit LCD using device tree

2014-09-02 Thread David Anders
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Re: [beagleboard] miniDisplay Cape - Looking for sample code

2014-07-17 Thread David Anders
; you can only send one line at a time. > > --Mark > > On Thursday, July 17, 2014 3:02:38 PM UTC-4, David Anders wrote: >> >> Mark, >> >> >> On Wednesday, July 16, 2014 11:23:59 AM UTC-5, Mark A. Yoder wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>&g

Re: [beagleboard] miniDisplay Cape - Looking for sample code

2014-07-17 Thread David Anders
Mark, On Wednesday, July 16, 2014 11:23:59 AM UTC-5, Mark A. Yoder wrote: > > > > *Why do you only write 768 bytes at a time to the SPI?* > > > no specific reason other than that is the size of one line on the display... Dave -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You

Re: [beagleboard] miniDisplay Cape - Looking for sample code

2014-07-17 Thread David Anders
SPIWriteChunk(buff_ptr, 768); > buff_ptr += 768; > } > } > > *Why do you only write 768 bytes at a time to the SPI?* > > With only small changes the code here[1] drives the miniDisplay and sends > a bmp file to it. > > --Mark > > [1] https://github.c

Re: [beagleboard] miniDisplay Cape - Looking for sample code

2014-07-16 Thread David Anders
d be easy enough to add a parser to decode bmp or png files... Dave > --Mark > > > On Tuesday, July 15, 2014 2:45:23 PM UTC-4, Mark A. Yoder wrote: >> >> David: >> I'm looking forward to seeing your example. A simple working example >> goes a long to way

Re: [beagleboard] miniDisplay Cape - Looking for sample code

2014-07-15 Thread David Anders
xample > goes a long to way to understanding the device. > > --Mark > > On Tuesday, July 15, 2014 1:22:50 PM UTC-4, David Anders wrote: >> >> Mark, >> >> the stock BB-SPIDEV0-00A0 device tree entry will enable the SPIDEV device >> driver. once th

Re: [beagleboard] miniDisplay Cape - Looking for sample code

2014-07-15 Thread David Anders
pdating [1] so quickly. > > Do you have any out-if-the-box demos that show how to use the miniDisplay > Cape? > > --Mark > > [1] http://elinux.org/CircuitCo:MiniDisplay_Cape > > On Tuesday, July 15, 2014 12:25:05 PM UTC-4, David Anders wrote: >> >> "

Re: [beagleboard] miniDisplay Cape - Looking for sample code

2014-07-15 Thread David Anders
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[beagleboard] Re: miniDisplay Cape - Looking for sample code

2014-07-15 Thread David Anders
Mark, hmm thought we had the spidev example code on the wiki, but it appears that we do not. we'll get that posted today. in the mean time, you can look at Matt Porters presentation on using SPI display devices as a linux kernel framebuffer: http://elinux.org/images/1/19/Passing_Time_With_SPI_

[beagleboard] Re: Concerns with Battery Cape?

2014-07-15 Thread David Anders
On Tuesday, July 15, 2014 10:42:49 AM UTC-5, rar76 wrote: > > I bought a battery cape for BBB last year. I just bought 8 eneloop 2500 > mah AA batteries for it, but I noticed the cape is discontinued. Was there > issues with the cape and BBB? > there were no direct issues with the battery ca

[beagleboard] Re: BeagleBone Black RTC?

2014-07-07 Thread David Anders
ups which a general I2C RTC won't have I don't think. > > Fisher > > On Tuesday, 8 July 2014 01:54:22 UTC+10, David Anders wrote: >> >> or just purchase a RTC Cape >> >> http://elinux.org/CircuitCo:RTC_Cape for $29.99MSRP >> >> >> On Friday,

[beagleboard] Re: BeagleBone Black RTC?

2014-07-07 Thread David Anders
or just purchase a RTC Cape http://elinux.org/CircuitCo:RTC_Cape for $29.99MSRP On Friday, February 1, 2013 1:51:51 AM UTC-6, Alexander Holler wrote: > > Hello, > > I've ust had a look at the specs for BeagleBone Black. > > As usual, my first question was: Does it support RTC operation? > > H

[beagleboard] Re: Beagle Bone Black Motor control

2014-06-18 Thread David Anders
Swazoo, the new Moto Cape from Circuitco (available first week of July) is based on the Arduino Moto Shield with the L298 (https://www.sparkfun.com/products/9815). the schematic and design files for both the Moto Shield and Moto Cape are released under open source Creative Commons license are

Re: [beagleboard] BeagleBoard SBC Goes OEM, COM Version Coming

2014-06-18 Thread David Anders
http://www.beagleboard.org/about On Wednesday, June 18, 2014 7:53:49 PM UTC-5, William Hermans wrote: > > Hi Scott, > > Thanks for clarifying. I guess I found the whole write-up at LinuxGizmos > rather confusing. Part of the problem on my behalf is that I guess I've > viewed Circuitco, and beag

Re: [beagleboard] BeagleBoard SBC Goes OEM, COM Version Coming

2014-06-18 Thread David Anders
Short and Sweet BlueSteel-Basic and all other BlueSteel products are manufactured in the Richardson, Texas on site of Circuitco. the benefits for BlueSteel products have been carefully considered to provide the follow benefits: * no restrictions on commercial usage * volume price discounts *

[beagleboard] Re: Beaglebone Black MIDI Cape Release Date

2014-03-30 Thread David Anders
Trev, due to the high demand for the beaglebone black, all of circuitco production that is available is being used for beaglebone black. the release of midi cape is pending, and probably won't be until end of 3rd quarter Dave On Sunday, March 30, 2014 3:48:08 PM UTC-5, Trev Wignall wrote: >

Re: [beagleboard] Get a Cape design manufactured by ? (CircuitCo?)

2014-03-30 Thread David Anders
lisarden, circuitco is not even accepting "for pay" cape clients currently... Dave On Sunday, March 30, 2014 2:29:01 PM UTC-5, lisarden wrote: > > if you pay for 1k, then CCO will accept it just like any other PCBA. IMHO > > > 2014-03-30 19:07 GMT+04:00 David Anders &g

Re: [beagleboard] Get a Cape design manufactured by ? (CircuitCo?)

2014-03-30 Thread David Anders
circuitco is not currently accepting any new clients for cape manufacturing... Dave On Friday, March 28, 2014 7:23:36 AM UTC-5, Gerald wrote: > > Well, I suggest you ask Circuitco. > > Gerald > > > > On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 3:18 AM, > wrote: > >> Hi! >> >> I have engineered a Beaglebone/BBB com

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Audio Cape Rev B schematics ?

2014-03-20 Thread David Anders
wrote: > > > > From: David Anders > > Reply-To: > > Date: Friday, February 21, 2014 at 1:18 PM > To: > > Subject: Re: [beagleboard] Re: Audio Cape Rev B schematics ? > > yes but it won't be posted until we are ready to ship... > > Hi Dave, >

[beagleboard] Re: Open-source hardware

2014-03-20 Thread David Anders
the Open Source Hardware Association provides some guidelines and definitions about what "open-source hardware" is: http://www.oshwa.org/definition/ Dave On Thursday, March 20, 2014 10:24:58 AM UTC-5, felip...@gmail.com wrote: > > Hello guys. I'm new with boards and I just want to know what do

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Availability - how come nobody has any BeagleBone Black to sell?

2014-03-19 Thread David Anders
has nothing to do with beagleboard.org but Gerald Coley is a TI >>> Engineer ? >>> >>> >>> Which part I didn't understand ? >>> >>> >>> Micka, >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 5:44 PM, David Anders >>&

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Availability - how come nobody has any BeagleBone Black to sell?

2014-03-19 Thread David Anders
t he's part of the Raspberry Pi foundation... Dave > > Micka, > > > On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 5:44 PM, David Anders > > wrote: > >> Venkat, >> >> >> On Monday, March 17, 2014 4:36:42 PM UTC-5, Venkat Bommakanti wrote: >>> >>&g

[beagleboard] Re: Availability - how come nobody has any BeagleBone Black to sell?

2014-03-18 Thread David Anders
Venkat, On Monday, March 17, 2014 4:36:42 PM UTC-5, Venkat Bommakanti wrote: > > On Monday, March 17, 2014 7:23:20 AM UTC-7, oha...@ohararp.com wrote: >> >> ... I would have no problem paying $75 for this board if we could >>> guarantee availibility and continued support (ie being able to stay i

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Audio Cape Rev B schematics ?

2014-02-21 Thread David Anders
yes but it won't be posted until we are ready to ship... Dave On Friday, February 21, 2014 2:04:28 PM UTC-6, john3909 wrote: > > > > From: David Anders > > Reply-To: > > Date: Friday, February 21, 2014 at 8:18 AM > To: > > Subject: [beagleboard] Re: Audi

[beagleboard] Re: Audio Cape Rev B schematics ?

2014-02-21 Thread David Anders
Valentin, the audio cape revb is in production now and should be available for purchase within 14 to 21 days. the design files for the audio cape revb are available on the wiki page: http://www.elinux.org/CircuitCo:Audio_Cape_RevB#Documentations On Wednesday, February 19, 2014 4:01:21 AM UTC-6

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Availability - how come nobody has any BeagleBone Black to sell?

2014-02-18 Thread David Anders
as gerald stated, circuitco is in full production of the beaglebone black and continues to ship daily to a wide range of distributors. these distributors fill back-orders first before showing stock. http://elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack#Board_Shipments Dave On Tuesday, February 18, 201

[beagleboard] Re: Workmanship?

2014-01-28 Thread David Anders
Paul: all of the surface mounted components are done with pick-n-place machine so they are usually very accurate, however all boards are inspected with "Automated Optical Inspection". you can see the process here http://youtu.be/FcqQvH41OR4 . with this in mind the inspection process is program

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Availability - how come nobody has any BeagleBone Black to sell?

2014-01-27 Thread David Anders
Doug, that part number exists only for accounting purposes to receive shipments and to do cross shipment between distributors Dave On Thursday, January 23, 2014 9:28:35 PM UTC-6, doog wrote: > > I just noticed that Digikey has a 100pack part number( BB-BBLK-100-ND ) > so wouldn't that alm

Re: [beagleboard] BeagleBone Black Availability

2014-01-23 Thread David Anders
Ismael, special computing has a good stock of black currently - https://specialcomp.com/beaglebone/index.htm Dave On Thursday, January 23, 2014 6:16:14 AM UTC-6, Ismael BarrosĀ² wrote: > > Hi there! > > We're desperately trying to acquire some BBBs for an urgent project, but > both Mouser, Far

[beagleboard] Re: Availability - how come nobody has any BeagleBone Black to sell?

2014-01-23 Thread David Anders
there is nothing to announce CircuitCo has been shipping consistently since the release. the demand for black grown significantly as well as the fact there are number of companies using black inside commercial productions violating the terms of use for black. with this in mind those compani

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Availability - how come nobody has any BeagleBone Black to sell?

2014-01-23 Thread David Anders
just fyi, for anyone interested, Special Computing is showing a pretty large stock of BeagleBone Blacks available: https://specialcomp.com/beaglebone/index.htm On Monday, January 20, 2014 7:19:20 AM UTC-6, Gerald wrote: > > We are shipping boards as you can see form the daily updates on the > s

[beagleboard] Re: Does Beagle bone black supports sleep and wake up from GPIO

2014-01-13 Thread David Anders
Ganesh, the TI 3.2 kernel and the TI 3.12 kernel both support PM operations including suspend/resume. the stock beagle kernel 3.8 doesn't directly support PM operations without a large number of patches Dave On Monday, January 13, 2014 6:13:51 AM UTC-6, ganesh h wrote: > > > Hello, > > Do

[beagleboard] Re: weather cape

2014-01-08 Thread David Anders
Eric, Koen Kooi was the original designer of the weather cape. the weather cape has been discontinued and no software support is planned for future releases of the example linux distribution shipped with the beaglebone black. the weather cape was initially marked as hardware incompatible beca

Re: [beagleboard] Angstrom Abandoned for BBB? Rumor + a Rant

2014-01-06 Thread David Anders
On Saturday, January 4, 2014 5:09:53 PM UTC-6, Anguel wrote: > > > > On Saturday, January 4, 2014 3:20:07 PM UTC+1, Jason Kridner wrote: >> >> We are working with Robert Nelson's Debian images to try to produce an >> out-of-box experience on par with the Angstrom images. Once we have a >> few m

Re: [beagleboard] Angstrom Abandoned for BBB? Rumor + a Rant

2014-01-01 Thread David Anders
On Wednesday, January 1, 2014 6:55:38 AM UTC-6, Anguel wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, January 1, 2014 1:37:02 PM UTC+1, Elena Grandi wrote: >> >> This theory has a problem: Beagleboard.org was born in 2008 or so, >> much earlier than the Raspberry (which started to be known to the >> public in 20

Re: [beagleboard] Angstrom Abandoned for BBB? Rumor + a Rant

2013-12-30 Thread David Anders
just in case some of the folks here would like to educate themselves on what beagleboard.org is: http://www.beagleboard.org/about On Monday, December 30, 2013 8:11:57 PM UTC-6, liyaoshi wrote: > > A part of this group interest me is about the rants > > Nest Time ,if I have chance to be abroa

[beagleboard] Re: What is the maximum number capes that can be stacked on the BBB?

2013-12-26 Thread David Anders
AT, maximum number of capes that contain a I2C eeprom for identification is 4, however as many capes as you would like can be added as long as they don't contain the EEPROMs. this does place the burden of enabling the support for the cape on the user Dave On Tuesday, December 24, 2013 6:

[beagleboard] Re: Angstrom Builds v2013.09

2013-12-24 Thread David Anders
Dan, the full log of the build error would be needed to find out what is happening. in the messages just after the exit, you should see a notice of where the log can be found... Dave On Tuesday, December 24, 2013 10:31:29 AM UTC-6, Daniel Metcalf wrote: > > So I have been waiting patiently for

[beagleboard] Re: Future of the Angstrom distribution for Beaglebone

2013-12-02 Thread David Anders
Dave, the Angstrom website is in the process of being moved to a new hosting site. it should be back up to full implementation shortly... Dave On Monday, December 2, 2013 7:53:56 AM UTC-6, David wrote: > > Is Angstrom still the "official" distribution for the Beaglebone? It > appears that th

[beagleboard] Re: GPIO used before purchase

2013-12-01 Thread David Anders
while you can use all of the pins as GPIOs it will greatly reduce the features available on the BBB. you should consider carefully what you are using the GPIOs for and then look to offload some of the GPIOs to a I2C based GPIO expander such as the TCA6408 or TCA6416. Dave On Wednesday, No

[beagleboard] Re: SPI1_D0 and SPI1_D1... what's MISO, whats MOSI?

2013-12-01 Thread David Anders
Thomas, unlike most microcontrollers, the AM335x allows the MISO/MOSI pins to be software definable. one of the reasons behind this is to help with the pcb layout. when designing complex boards, sometimes it is easier to have these definable help prevent the signals having to cross during layou

[beagleboard] Re: Extracting eMMC contents using FAT formatted card

2013-09-26 Thread David Anders
http://elinux.org/BeagleBone_Black_Extracting_eMMC_contents is a good place to start. i am working with bill traynor to organize howto pages along with other specific category groups... Dave On 09/26/2013 12:23 PM, Jason Kridner wrote: On Thursday, September 26, 2013 1:20:18 PM UTC-4, David

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Touchscreen Jitter / Jumping on Beaglebone Black LCD Capes

2013-09-26 Thread David Anders
Anguel, circuitco responds to ALL emails sent to supp...@beagleboardtoys.com and supp...@boardzoo.com for products produced by circuitco. we have responded to a number of emails with questions about the jitter issue. we provide recommended configurations and setup for all of the products, howev

[beagleboard] Re: Extracting eMMC contents using FAT formatted card

2013-09-26 Thread David Anders
Jason, shouldn't this info go up on the elinux.org wiki? Dave On 09/26/2013 12:16 PM, Jason Kridner wrote: There are lots of ways to extract the contents of the eMMC to save off and reuse. I'm proposing a method using Buildroot and an initramfs such that you can simply drop a few files from a