August 27, 2012 – Mouser Electronics, Inc. is stocking new BeagleBone capes, including a 3.1MP Camera Cape, Audio Cape, DVID-02 Cape, Weather Cape, and a 4.3" TFT LCD Cape. These capes continue to expand the capabilities of the BeagleBone Community Development Board.
BeagleBone Capes are expansion boards which can be stacked up to four at a time. The full list of BeagleBone Capes include LCD Capes, DVI-D Capes, the Breakout Cape, Breadboard Cape, CANBus Cape, RS232 Cape, Battery Cape, Camera Cape, Weather Cape, and the Audio Cape.
The new 4.3" TFT LCD Cape offers a panel that is also a 4-wire resistive touchscreen. This screen can display resolution up to 480x272. The DVID-02 Cape provides a DVI-D interface, audio interface, and a standard HDMI connector. This board also features two standard 3.5mm audio jacks for audio input and output, and the output resolution is hardcoded to 1024x768. The 3.1MP Camera Cape provides a portable camera solution, with a 3.1-megapixel camera that interfaces to BeagleBone via GPMC. The Weather Cape provides weather data including temperature, barometric pressure, humidity, and ambient light. The Audio Cape provides a low-power audio output and integrated microphone. Two standard 3.5mm audio jacks are used for audio input and output, and this cape also features a TLV320AIC3106 audio codec with stereo headphone amplifier that can enable 48kHz DAC playback. To learn more, visit http://www.mouser.com/beaglebonecapes/.
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Mouser Electronics, a subsidiary of TTI, Inc., is part of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway family of companies. Mouser is an award-winning authorized semiconductor and electronic component distributor, focused on the rapid introduction of new products and technologies to electronic design engineers and buyers. Mouser.com features more than 3 million products online from more than 450 manufacturers. Mouser publishes multiple catalogs per year providing designers with up-to-date data on the components now available for the next generation of electronic devices. Mouser ships globally to over 375,000 customers in 170 countries from its 492,000 sq. ft. state-of-the-art facility south of Dallas, Texas. For more information, visit www.mouser.com.
About BeagleBoard by CircuitCo
BeagleBoard.org develops low-cost, fan-less single-board computers based on low-power Texas Instruments processors featuring the ARM Cortex-A8 core with all of the expandability of today's desktop machines, but without the bulk, expense, or noise. BeagleBoard.org provides an open source development platform for the creation of high-performance embedded designs.
For more information, visit http://beagleboard.org/.
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