[Coco] Its Alive!

[Bill Pierce]

Chris, yep, I know they're small. My Coco 3 has NO room above the MB, as the dist 1 meg has all that space and it needs all the "air" it can grab, the fan and keyboard interface take up half of what "was" the area under the keyboard. The fan's 2" x 2" inches and the interface about 4" x 2" inches So I have about half that space left and I know there's plenty of room there for a PI.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher Smith <csmith at wolfram.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Wed, Oct 9, 2013 7:04 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] Its Alive!




----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill Pierce" <ooogalapasooo at aol.com>
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> Sent: Tuesday, October 8, 2013 9:53:24 PM
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Its Alive!
> 
> 
> Ed, we want pictures... :-)
> It would be nice to see how you have it set up.
> I do intend on going this route sometime in the future if I can get
> my hands on one.
> Since my Coco 3 has an eagle keyboard interface (external), I have
> lots of room where the keyboard used to be and that would be a
> perfect place to fit an RPI. I have a panel installed in the big
> keyboard hole and a fan already mounted inside (needed for the disto
> 1 meg). Once it's set up right, it could be run headless. Just have
> it boot linux on poweron, then autorun dw. The client side
> (NitrOS-9) software to control all aspects of dw is already in
> developement and close to finished and plans for the RSDOS
> equivalent is in planning. As Aaron always says, anything that can
> be done from the GUI, can be done from the Coco.

You _really_ don't need that much room for the Pi.  I'd bet you could install it 
right inside a CoCo with no modifications at all.  Just hang it from the lid or 
something over the mainboard.  To give you some idea of the scale, I have one at 
work.  I've hacked up an old PC keyboard and installed the Pi inside of it; it 
has a reset button soldered onto the back, a power cord and a DVI cable coming 
out of it, and an extra USB hub installed inside with some externally facing 
ports and an 802.11 wireless adapter...

These things don't need much room at all.

Chris


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Christopher Smith
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