TinCan tools Trainer board XM for Panda

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Dave Curtis

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May 2, 2011, 6:58:28 PM5/2/11
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Just got a notification today that the 'Trainer board XM', which is compatible with both Beagle XM and Pandaboards is available from Tin Can Tools.
https://www.tincantools.com/product.php?productid=16151&cat=0&page=1&featured

They must have gotten a small batch -- their stock status was showing 11 units when I ordered (now 10 :)

Highlights:
$59
Compatible with Beagle XM and Pandaboard expansion connector.
Has ATMega328 for your Omap3 processor to boss around.
Serial port, SPI, I2C, various GPIO broken out and level translated.
I2C board identification so that the GPIO pin mux can be set automatically by U-Boot, assuming you have a version of U-Boot that recognizes the board. I'm not sure if the current version of U-boot does that yet, however. Might have to update U-Boot on the Panda.

To be honest, I'm not sure what I'm going to do with it -- I just want to explore various expansion options for the Pandaboard, and this seemed like a good value. This is a "Rev B" board so it contains some tweaks from their beta batch of A1 boards, but I'm thinking it probably still has some quirks.

-dave


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