[Coco] BIGGEST PROBLEM

[David Ladd]

On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 4:32 PM, Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com> wrote:

> > On Mar 6, 2017, at 4:30 PM, John Guin <johnguin at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Seems like it "should just work."
> >
> > Someone with any insight here please correct me if I am wrong,
> > John
>
> There is the USB protocol stack which handles hubs and multiple devices
> and such. That is what seems to be keeping USB off low-end stuff, and
> causing all these cheap chip solutions to exist.
>
> By the way, the $4 PIC chip I mentioned also has 64K of program space and
> can run code on it's own. It has an RTC, I/O pins and


​Allen, you know I was actually thinking that for a USB joystick to CoCo
adapter might actually possibly to use a Raspberry Pi Zero as the USB Host
device and then using a couple of those I2C DAC boards on the RPi0's I2C
buss for at least the analog controls.  Then the buttons would probably
need some form of solid state type switch.

I think you can still get the Raspberry Pi Zero 1.3 for about 5 USD.  Sadly
the New Raspberry Pi Zero W is 10 USD.

More crazy ideas from the peanut ​gallery errr I mean 2 cents :P




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