[Coco] What would your ideal CoCo cartridge do?

[Aaron Wolfe]

The bluetooth in Roger's pack was not something the coco could use as a
blue tooth device, it was hidden behind a 6551 uart from the coco
perspective and could only support a serial connection (it's exactly the
equivalent of plugging one of those bt serial modules like you linked into
a serial port on the coco).  So from the coco perspective, it's just a
serial link and can't do anything else.

I believe what George is thinking about is actually interfacing a bluetooth
controller with the coco.  This would potentially allow the entire range of
bluetooth devices to communicate with the coco.  In addition to a serial
link, you could have audio channels, networking, input devices like
keyboards or mice, various types of sensors, printers and so on.  BT
defines many profiles a device can implement.

It would be challenging to implement some types of devices,  but things
like keyboards should not be terribly difficult if the bluetooth hardware
had a built in bt stack (similar to the model of using a wiznet tcpip stack
to provide ethernet or wifi to the coco).
On Oct 30, 2013 4:58 PM, "Bill Pierce" <ooogalapasooo at aol.com> wrote:

>
> 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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