Pocketbeagle2 cape

General Discussion
1

I have created a new cape for pocketbeagle and published on github.
It should work, if anyone want to check look on my website for the link

The name of the project is PocketBeagle2_cape
I have connector for power, USB and CAN as well as a few connectors to bring out unused GPIOs
I have a connector for a LCD used for Arduino as well.

I can’t order yet since trump just put 125% tariffs on Chinese products. Hopefully he will fold soon on that one soon.

I have tested arch linux and it is working nicely on it. I have a connection issue with my old cape for the USB so I was not able to test that part. I was able to run slackware, SuSE and Fedora but those are too much a pain to get to work correctly and only debian, archlinux and gentoo seem to be usable for this board.
Fedora was the most annoying with its flooding the serial link with bullshit audit message even with audit app uninstalled.
Usually we disable it with audit=0 in the grub command line but there is no grub used on this system.

I am using kicad 9.0 so you cannot load it with anything older than 9.0. Annoying but that is how they’ve been doing it all along. My other projects are either 8.0 or 7.0.

I run kicad on gentoo. I may move them to the mac studio if there is an arm64 version for the mac available and more stable than the one on linux which crashes when I edit some files outside of kicad and then load kicad.
For example it is impossible to delete no_connect in the IDE so the only way I found to do that was to delete the entry in the schematic file, but then kicad crashes as I load it right after that.

I am writing some documentation which I will publish in a pdf file on github.
I plan to do the same thing with mutliple boards I have

1 Like
2

When I tried to make an update to the schematic I noticed that some files were trashed, not sure if git or github was the problem. I fixed the commit, for some strange reason a lot of the files were set to 0 size.
The project seems correct now. One note, if you put an LCD you need to have enough space to put connectors under the LCD. I am working on another one where I have a LCD adapter with connectors so it would have to be on that board. I may make one much larger so the LCD wouldn’t have to sit on top.
As you can see the Pocketbeagle 2 goes on the back of the board. That was limiting the traces and the size of the board which I try to keep under 100 mm as the price goes way up when the board is bigger.

3

For the large companies it appears they might be exempt. All the “noise” ( small NON-Wall Street traded companies) in the business world appear to be getting the shaft, dry with this one.