[Coco] New CoCo Cartridge CAD Preview

[camillus Blockx]

If I remember it correctly, there was a person that made use of a cassette
case, to make a ROM cartridge interface. I used it for a bus buffer for the
coco, that was designed by the coco computerclub HCC in the netherlands. It
worked fine.

cb



On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 9:45 PM, Joel Ewy <jcewy at swbell.net> wrote:

> I posted a screen shot of a preview of the CoCo cartridge housing I'm
> designing in OpenSCAD on my blog: http://8littlebits.wordpress.**
> com/2013/04/16/cartridge-**housing-cad/<http://8littlebits.wordpress.com/2013/04/16/cartridge-housing-cad/>
>
> It isn't quite finished, and I haven't printed it yet, but this should
> give an indication of the basic design.  I have it so that the depth of the
> cartridge is parameterized.  As depicted in the screen shot, it is the same
> size as a game cart.  (I'm using Quasar Commander as my model.)  But by
> changing one variable, I can make a longer cart.  At the moment, the
> longest one I can make will be just a little over 100mm, which is in
> between a game cart and the vacuum-formed cart they put the DS-69 video
> digitizer in, which is about 112mm long.  I intend to build a RepRap
> printer, which I believe has a bigger build platform, so I could probably
> make something as long as a FDC or an RS-232 Pak with that.  Given that I
> have printed a case for my Raspberry Pi, I might just be able to fit one in
> a housing printed on the Makerbot, but there probably wouldn't be room for
> a whole lot else.
>
> Next I just need to design cutouts for various connectors and whatnot.
>  Then the housing could be customized for a wide variety of applications.
>
> If you're working on a project involving the CoCo's cartridge connector,
> what would you like to see in a 3D printed housing?
>
> JCE
>
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