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

[Paul Barton]

I use the FTDI 5V serial cables myself. I make LED-cubes having USB through
a Microchip MCU (18LF2321). The cubes (MCU) have a built in editor for
storing page images to I2C ROMS,  You should be able to tie a USB chip
(whatever kind) directly to the coco3 (somehow). Just a thought anyway.

Paul
IdeZilla on utube.


On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 5:13 PM, Bill Nobel <b_nobel at hotmail.com> wrote:

> 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???
> >
> > Paul
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 12:13 PM, Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 3:04 PM, Chris Osborn <fozztexx at fozztexx.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On Jun 20, 2014, at 12:00 PM, Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> 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?
> >>
> >> Well.. if me saying "wow that would be nice" and Jim doing all the
> >> work can be seen as working together.. sure :)
> >>
> >> 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).
> >>
> >> 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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