[Coco] Pi in a Pak - Was: Coco -> Arduino -> Drivewire and back again

[Bill Nobel]

Just to jump in the convo,  I have both the pi and an uno and I would think the uno would be the better candidate for doing this.  The pi as Aaron mentioned has a lot of overhead in boot so no immediate actions available to the Coco.

The Arduino on the other hand would be a better one to use.  I notice that my uno is up and running in millisecs vs the pi.  I don’t have the real Coco to play with this, but from my experience with both, I would use the uno over the pi.

Bill Nobel

On Jun 20, 2014, at 1:58 PM, Paul Barton <paultbarton.1944 at gmail.com> wrote:

> How come I don't see USB to/from the CoCo3???
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> Paul
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> On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 12:13 PM, Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 3:04 PM, Chris Osborn <fozztexx at fozztexx.com>
>> wrote:
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>>> On Jun 20, 2014, at 12:00 PM, Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>> ideally, a rompak could be made that did all those things and more as
>>>> nicely as cocofdc does disks.  pi in a pak can do all of those things,
>>>> but probably not as nicely.  still, a step in the right direction
>>> 
>>> Weren't you and Jim Brain working on a way to do that via SPI
>> communication between the CoCo and the Pi?
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>> Well.. if me saying "wow that would be nice" and Jim doing all the
>> work can be seen as working together.. sure :)
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>> I am hopelessly inept at hardware things, so at the mercy of those who
>> know more to connect the Pi (or anything that could do the networking
>> and other stuff, i don't have any special love for the pi).
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>> I haven't heard of any progress from Jim but I will never give up
>> hope!  As Nick pointed out, the Pi isn't the perfect platform anyway,
>> since it does need some time to boot up.  We are getting there though.
>> Some day....
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