[Coco] RPi DriveWire Success!

[Joel Ewy]

On 01/14/2014 12:37 PM, Frank Swygert wrote:
> Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 10:12:22 -0600
> From: Joel Ewy<jcewy at swbell.net>
>
> > Sufficient fiddling got me through....
>
> Joel, would you make your RPi install available on a bootable USB 
> stick? I'm not really interested right now, but I'm sure others would be. 

At the moment I'm just using stock Raspbian, which I've updated with 
Synaptic, and installed OpenJDK and DriveWire 4.  I may go as far as 
making it run DW at boot time, but I don't expect to customize it in any 
way that others couldn't just as easily do on their own.

> You might need to move to an external power supply (like a switching 
> laptop PS) or at least an external transformer (larger wall wart?) for 
> power. That would free up some room in the case and reduce heat.
>

Right now the power supplies for both the FPGA board and the RPi are 
external wart-like things, but they're both 5VDC supplies, so I really 
just need to find something that can supply enough current to run them 
both.  3.5A should be sufficient.  Then I'll just hook up a power 
connector to the back of the CoCo case, add a single switch to turn the 
whole rig on and off, and run the internal cables to all the relevant 
bits and pieces.  If i can't find a 5V 3500mA external supply I guess I 
might have to use something like a 12V supply and put voltage regulators 
inside the case.

JCE