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gen4-4DCAPE-XXT/CT-CLB - GETTING STARTED MANUAL

HOW TO USE THE GEN4 LCD CAPE

Connecting the gen4-LCD-CAPE

Connect the gen4-4DCAPE Adaptor to the BeagleBone Black while the

BeagleBone Black is not powered.

Connect the 30-way FFC cable to the gen4-4DCAPE Adaptor, and to

the gen4-4DCAPE Display. The 30-way FFC connectors are ‘Upper

Contact’ meaning the blue stiffener on the FFC cable should be against

the PCB, with the metal pads on the cable facing upward.

Summary of Contents for GEN4-4DCAPE-43CT-CLB

Page 1: ...gen4 4DCAPE XXT CT CLB GETTING STARTED MANUAL 1...

Page 2: ...e the gen4 LCD CAPE Connecting the gen4 LCD CAPE gen4 4DCAPE Troubleshooting 09 Getting Started with a Simple Project 12 Reference Documents 14 Glossary WHAT S IN THE BOX gen4 4DCAPE Adaptor gen4 4DCA...

Page 3: ...feature a 4 3 5 0 and 7 0 colour LCD display powered through a BeagleBone board and come in resistive and capacitive touch variants gen4 4DCAPE XXT and gen4 4DCAPE XXCT CLB respectively SYSTEM REQUIR...

Page 4: ...eded for the power supply please refer to the gen4 4DCAPE Datasheet CONNECTING THE DISPLAY MODULE TO THE PC The gen4 LCD CAPE is designed to work with the Debian Operating System supplied for the Beag...

Page 5: ...CAPE Adaptor to the BeagleBone Black while the BeagleBone Black isnot powered 2 Connect the 30 way FFC cable to the gen4 4DCAPE Adaptor and to the gen4 4DCAPE Display The 30 way FFC connectors are Upp...

Page 6: ...n shipping with current BBB boards now and can be installed onto older BBB s If the distribution you wish to use is not supporting 4D Systems gen4 4DCAPEs by default the supplied source files can be u...

Page 7: ...sername Password gen4 4DCAPE Troubleshooting For older versions of the BeagleBone Boards the eMMCs of these boards might have an outdated version of the U boot which will not load with the gen4 4DCAPE...

Page 8: ...Device Identifier Builtin Default fbdev Device 0 Driver fbdev Option Rotate CCW EndSection 2 Rotate and set the touch coordinates Run the command sudo nano usr share X11 xorg conf d 40 libinput conf F...

Page 9: ...on3 you can use python3 version You can update your python3 version by using the command sudo apt get update sudo apt get install python3 Step 2 Install PyQt PyQt is one of the most popular Python bin...

Page 10: ...or any other editor you have installed in you computer 4 Paste the script below and Save import sys from PyQt4 import QtGui def window app QtGui QApplication sys argv widget QtGui QWidget label QtGui...

Page 11: ...ython script is saved then run the command python3 HelloWorld py Option 2 Run the Python Script Using SSH Navigate to the script s directory in this case Desktop This is optional but you can test your...

Page 12: ...CAPE Datasheet This document contains the essential information related to the gen4 4DCAPE BeagleBone Website A good place to start for information and support regarding the BBB and various distributi...

Page 13: ...gen4 4DCAPE XXT CT CLB GETTING STARTED MANUAL 13 NOTES...

Page 14: ...ating the eMMc software chip done through chip erasure and SD Card update 5 Image is a serialized copy of the entire state of a computer system stored in some non volatile form 6 LCD Liquid Crystal Di...