BBB-GVS
Beaglebone Black cape which provides 5V GVS connections
We love the Beaglebone Black. With all of its I/O connections it offers exciting potential for embedded/connected devices. It even has real mounting holes which let the board be used for real-world applications.
When we got our first Beaglebone Black we were excited to try it with some of our Arduino GVS (Ground/Voltage/Signal) sensors and GVS output devices but couldn't since they are all 5V sensors. Sure we could cobble together some level shifters on a breadboard but in the end we wouldn't have something that could be deployed in a real application What we really wanted was a 5V Sensor shield like the one we use for our Arduino. But there were none out there. So we designed one.
Introducing the BBB-GVS cape.
Features
- (5) 5V GPIO GVS connections (auto direction detection)
- (4) 5V GPIO/Timer GVS connections (auto direction detection)
- (2) 5V UART Tx/Rx connections (auto direction detection)
- (1) 5V PWM GVS connection
- (1) 5V I2C bus 4-pin connections (auto direction detection)
- 5V pins are all ESD protected pins with 15 kV of protection
- Cape configuration EEPROM
- (7) 3.3V GPIO connections
- (1) 3.3V UART Tx/Rx connection
- (1) 3.3V PWM GVS connection
- (7) 1.8V analog GVS connections
- Resettable Fuses on 5V and 3.3V power
- Selectable 5V source
- 3.3V and 5V power status LEDs
- Beaglebone Black form factor
