This cape provides much of the same functionality but for the smaller cheaper pocketbeagle.
Beaglebone black solar panel.
Overview the beaglebone black bbone black 4g is a low cost high expansion focused beagleboa.
Can supply up to 3a to the beaglebone and capes from the solar and or battery inputs.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Traditionally the community has been using an octoscroller on a full beaglebone black for driving the panels.
P10 and p5 led panels have become a popular method of displaying images text and effects for animated christmas light displays.
When the beaglebone is running it can track voltage and current of the battery solar and system 5v via the ina3221 power monitor.
It was a complicated and costly board to build and has been discontinued.
This past year with the beaglebone black as the brain of the boat the team not only completed their most ambitious design.
Thanks to dougedey for all of the help.
For ten years the solar boat team from the delft university of technology in netherlands has designed produced tested and raced a boat powered by solar energy.
The solar cape was designed to work with the higher dc voltages of solar panels and charge a lead acid battery for powering the beaglebone.
Beaglebone black beaglebone ai.
Solar panels cells.
How to apply coupon code.
This panel will be used to a power a herms like system in the near future.
12 24v automatic detection support solar panels 12v or 24v up to 150w 6a max 10a for 10 sec estimated values provides 5v up to 1 5a with 90 efficiency built in current sensors for accurate input and output power monitoring talks to beagle bone via tx4 rx4 gnd no other pins required can be used.
Solar input for 12v solar panel 0 to 26vdc.
Battery input for 12v lead acid power source.
I m sharing this to provide an example of a control panel based off the powerful strangebrew elsinore server software with beaglebone black.