[Coco] ArduinoCoCo

[Jayeson Lee-Steere]

Boisy,

I had a read over your blog posts, very interesting. I have played with
Arduino some and usually reach for the Teensy variant. Apart from the
convenience for breadboarding, the other favorite feature is how the USB
port is used. On the Arduino proper, the micro's serial port feeds to a
serial->USB converter. Communication with the host PC is at serial speeds
and consumes the serial port. On the Teensy, communication is directly
through the USB interface. To both the PC and the sketch, it works like a
serial port but runs much faster. And the real serial port is free to use
for other purposes.

I used my Teensy as a USB to serial adapter for Drivewire. A trivial sketch
passes data between the USB and serial libraries. It has been nagging me
since that interfacing to the Teensy via a PIA or similar should be so very
much faster.

A proto board with a Coco card edge (and if I'm being greedy, mounts in a
Program Pak case) sure would be a handy thing.

Jayeson


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On Jan 22, 2013, at 10:15 AM, Boisy G. Pitre <boisy at
tee-boy.com<http://five.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/coco>>
wrote:


>* I've started a blog about my exploits in interfacing the Arduino to the
CoCo: http://arduinococo.blogspot.com *


Boisy, I have been following your progress. Quite exciting.

Have you heard of Teensy? They have a $16 board ($19 with header pins) that
would be nice to have plugged in to a CoCo cartridge for expanded I/O. This
is the thing I am planning on using for the CoCo keyboard interface stuff
since it's tiny, cheap and very low power (and programmed like Arduino).

http://www.pjrc.com/teensy/

I also have a Duo, Leonardo and Due, but I want to try to stick with the
Duo or other models available at the local Radio Shack for folks to just go
down and buy (though costing more).

If you would consider it, I would be interested in knowing what it would
take to hook Arduino I/O pins to a CoCo somehow -- like, if I had a
breadboard and I wanted to wire something up myself. I don't suppose we
have any sources of CoCo compatible breadboards these days....
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