[Coladam] adam news

[Dale Wick]

I also have been working on a USB interface card for the Adam.  I have a 
board that I can get for $30 US, which is an AVR board, and includes a USB 
OTG (Universal Serial Bus On The Go) controller, and 48 general I/O pins, 
and 8 MB of flash.  I was hoping to get some help from Rich Drushel at 
AdamCon concerning interfacing it to AdamNET.  The plan was to support disk 
images on the built in flash + external flash drives that you connect up.  
You could have 4 tape drives and 4 disk drives mounted at once.

As for how to change what is mounted, well, you could do it with a LCD 
screen, and navigate through the disk images or create new ones.  It has a 
built in 4 direction + clickable joystick, plus one other programmable 
button.  So if I got it going, it could be self contained.  Maybe a whole 
interfacing device would cost about $60 or something, with LCD and a small 
enclosure, and the connectors for the Adam.  It would require external power 
to work probably.  For testing I've been using a 9V battery when it is 
running in host mode.   But it can for sure be powered by a 5V source.  So I 
would have to check if AdamNET's power would be enough.  I suspect it might 
be actually.

I haven't thought about printers, but it does include drivers for keyboard 
and mouse interfacing, so as strange as it sounds, we could use the Adam 
with a USB keyboard.

But of course I'm slow at these things, and have been working on this 
project since December.  So I'm sure that someone else could easily beat me 
to it.

I got mine from digikey, but here is the link to the information on the 
Amtel site:

http://www.atmel.com/dyn/products/tools_card.asp?tool_id=3879

and that links to digikey.

Dale

>From: "Richard F. Drushel, Ph.D." <drushel at apk.net>
>To: Adam Coleco <coladam at adamcon.org>
>Subject: Re: [Coladam] adam news
>Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 08:04:21 -0400 (EDT)
>
>[Joe Blenkle] spake unto the ether:
>
> > Any comments or thoughts on this from the group?
>
>	WOW!!!!!!!  Very exciting, and I'd love to know the tech.  I
>always figured it was possible.
>
>	*Rich*
>
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