Talk:Lisa/Bone

JKG Questions:

• Do we need a power supply on the cape? It will increase cost quite a bit. If Lisa/M is still connected directly to peripherals it may as well get power from off-board, most vehicles already have a 5-6V servo bus

Neo: I thought the cape would have a voltage ragulator which can power the F4 and BBB. Maybe a different power rail for the servos.

• fully-populated Lia vs Lisa/M?
  • Allows (almost) all connections to be broken out through the cape and BBB -- 0.1" header pins on Lia and sockets on cape with screws to lock boards together
    • much less wire nest
  • no header pin access to ANALOG1 or ANALOG2

NeoFromMatix Questions:

• Is the plan to mount a Lisa/Mx on top of the BBB (just with an other board layout) or is this a completely new autopilot ? (for the second case we could use a larger MCU with more IO pins)
• I would like to see a 0.1" pinout since this is much easier to solder and i can't see a large benefit of the molex connectors.
• I would like it if we could flash the cape/F4 from the BBB

Note from Bryan:

• The SPI bus on the BB only can act as master. This would make the BB have to do busy loops polling the autopilot to check for data. I propose CAN as it has error detection and data framing.
• The lithium battery system only can act as a charger. The BB's power supply will not let it run on the nominal 3.6v of the lithium cell without a boosting SMPS.