[Coco] FDC emulators was:Re: Its Alive!

[Steve Bjork]

Matt,
Glad to hear that you are still working on the FDC emulator project.  
That better that I did on the project since I quit to work on more main 
stream stuff.  Got to pay the bills.

Right now, I'm retooling my hardware lab for projects in the Haunt 
(Halloween) prop industry.  Those guys love the way I can cut design and 
manufacturing cost on products.  On one project, I took a 70 part board 
from 200 mm by 170 mm to only 50 mm by 40 with 18 parts.  It would have 
been smaller if not for the 4 power mosfets with heatsinks.  That board 
replaces most of there high cost unique prop controller boards since the 
SDcard holds not only the music & sound FX but also the scrip to how the 
prop performs.

Once the lab is all paid for, I could use those tools to design more 
hobby stuff like for the CoCo.

While I'm mostly know in the CoCo community for software, I'm really a 
hardware guy.  But when you get right down to it, you need to know both 
to be an expert in either discipline.

Steve

On 10/10/2013 8:25 AM, Matthew Stock wrote:
> I'm still working on my FDC emulator.  I still need to crush one bug before
> I feel like it's ready for show and tell time.  The main issue right now is
> time - I'm in the process of changing jobs and things are a little hectic.
> I hope to have nearly all of the week of the 21st free to focus on this and
> a couple other projects, and hopefully I'll have a video demo at the end of
> it.
>    -Matt