[Coco] CoCo Ethernet for $25-$30...

[Allen Huffman]

On Apr 8, 2013, at 5:42 PM, Frank Pittel <fwp at deepthought.com> wrote:
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> Most of these products will work fine with Arduino as well as Parallax micros. The Xbee stuff is interesting
> since it allows for wireless serial at 115K!! There's an adaptor that allows one to be connected to a PC via
> usb. Connect one to your computer via usb and another to the bitbanger on a coco!

I have a set of Xbees, which I bought from RadioShack of all places! They are very neat, and a local place I do some work for (Renaissance festival, Halloween haunted houses, etc.) has a setup of outdoor laser tag equipment that is all based on the Xbees but using ones with the 1.5 mile range instead of the small ones I have from the Shack.

> PS - I know I'm strongly in the Parallax camp but there's something about a micro available as a 40pin DIP
> with 32 IO pins that has 8 independent cores (they call them cogs) each running at 80MHZ that I like.

I have done much work with BASIC Stamp (www.efx-tek.com Halloween prop controllers) which is what got me in to this years ago. I wish I had stayed with it all this time.

Have you done any interfacing with the CoCo?
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