Cool! Sorry I didn't respond sooner, was down for the count for a few days with a bug or something.
I've been in KY visiting family the past week and return to CA after the new year. Then I plan to focus on TDock as much as possible. Ken On Tuesday, December 22, 2015, Stephen Adolph <twospru...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ken, > I bought a 2B today. so I'm ready to go! > > I decided a 2B was a better investment then to use OpenWRT and a linksys > router for my "laddiealpha on the WAN" project.... > > Steve > > On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 10:36 AM, Ken Pettit <petti...@gmail.com > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','petti...@gmail.com');>> wrote: > >> On 12/7/15 7:00 AM, Ray Lopez wrote: >> >> Ken, forgive the stupid question, but what does TDock do? RL >> >> >> Hi Ray, >> >> The goals of TDock: >> >> 1. Provide an HDMI LCD video interface for Model T (a DVI replacement). >> 2. It should work with M100, T102, T200 and PC8201. >> 3. Provide a TPDD client to USB Thumb drives or SD cards (NADSBox >> substitute). >> 4. Provide an interface capable of supporting networking. >> 5. Provide an interface for printing to modern printers. >> >> 6. While not a goal, it also provides 13 I/O pins (well 11 I/O and 2 >> input only) on the pass-thru LPT port when not connected to a printer. >> >> The implementation in the picture is a daughter card for the Raspberry Pi >> 2 B (a "Pi Hat"). It connects with the Model T parallel port for primary >> communication of video data, but also has an RS-232 port (and a BCR port). >> It also has a "pass-through" LPT connector where your old LPT printer can >> be connected. Making TDock a Pi Hat was the simplest and cheapest >> approach, though it is not very portable and has the requirement of booting >> / shutting down Linux. >> >> My other ideas involved simple microcontrollers or FPGAs to provide HDMI >> / VGA. They would have been more portable, but also more expensive. The >> general theme on this list always seems to be "cheap" (though I prefer the >> word "inexpensive"), so I decided to give up portablily in favor of lower >> cost. >> >> Ken >> > >
