[Coco] Restuffing a CoCo chassis

Didier Derny didier at aida.org
Thu Feb 12 11:49:51 EST 2015


It should not be difficut to do with an avr + 
http://www.circuitsathome.com/products-page/breakout-boards (check usb 
host shield)

I'm doing the reverse :)

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didier


On 12/02/2015 17:40, J Arcane wrote:
> Has anyone done any mods to turn a CoCo3 keyboard into a USB one for a PC?
>
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 6:25 PM, Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com> wrote:
>
>>> On Feb 12, 2015, at 9:57 AM, Joe Grubbs <jsgrubbs at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Anyway (sorry for the boring preface), I now have an empty CoCo2
>> chassis, and that has given me an idea. I was thinking of stuffing it with
>> either a mini-ITX mobo or maybe some kind of system-on-a-chip computer
>> (like a Raspberry Pi). I could fit a small form factor laptop style
>> keyboard, install a card reader in place of the cartridge slot, etc. The
>> more I think about it, the more I want to do it. Has anyone else attempted
>> this before? Is it sacrilege? :P
>>
>> Do it! Chris Hawks (HawkSoft) has a CoCo with a Pi inside, and an Arduino
>> to read the CoCo keyboard. He boots it to the MESS CoCo emulator. Very
>> cool. I'd be interested in picking up a dead CoCo myself for a project like
>> that.
>>
>>                  -- A
>>
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