bobc Wrote:
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I had thought of adapting
> RAMPS shield for BBB, but with Replicape being
> available soon there may not be much point.
From what I gather, the Replicape will be at least twice the cost of RAMPS, so actually adapting the latter may be a good idea. The BBB works on 3.3v levels though, and as far as I know the Arduino shields run on 5v levels, so not sure if it would be quite as straightforward as a simple bridge.
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I had thought of adapting
> RAMPS shield for BBB, but with Replicape being
> available soon there may not be much point.
From what I gather, the Replicape will be at least twice the cost of RAMPS, so actually adapting the latter may be a good idea. The BBB works on 3.3v levels though, and as far as I know the Arduino shields run on 5v levels, so not sure if it would be quite as straightforward as a simple bridge.