[Coco] What would your ideal CoCo cartridge do?

[Bill Pierce]

Actually, blue tooth was done for the Coco already. Roger Taylor had a blue tooth unit. I don't know the extent of the capabilities, but I know that it wouldn't take much for those here who are more "hardware" minded to come up with plenty of uses for it. I'm pretty sure someone said they've already had drivewire running on a blue tooth system (or at at least it could be done).
Matter of fact, could this be plugged into a drivewire cable?
http://dx.com/p/db9-rs232-wireless-bluetooth-serial-module-104301

For $11 you get a wireless serial connection.

If so, then all that's needed is for the recieving unit to know the Coco's protocol.

Bill Pierce
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-----Original Message-----
From: George Ramsower <georgera at gvtc.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Wed, Oct 30, 2013 4:36 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] What would your ideal CoCo cartridge do?


 I've put some thought to this subject. LOTS of thought.

 I "THINK" it would be nice if a small computer thing such as a CPLD or 
whatever it's called could interface to a Blue Tooth dongle. Then the Coco 
could access other devices without wires.
 I have ideas on how this might be used but, I have NO idea how it could be 
done.

 The little bit of research I did on Blue Tooth  tells me it can access up 
to about 80 devices which leaves us with plenty of things we could add to 
our cocos as projects, even robotics and other things as what I use. At the 
speed it is capable of, it would still be faster than our cocos.

 I feel it would be a cool thing! It could even replace the drive wire stuff 
to a PC.

 If a little CPU thingy isn't necessary, even better but I think that may be 
something required to deal with it.

George 


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