23 Aug
2012
23 Aug
'12
12:15 a.m.
Making an HPIB 'drive' using flash memory
cards (or USB sticks), a
microcontroller, et is one of those projects that gets talked about
here from time to time but which nobody has ever doen.
I got started on building
glue logic so a host with a parallel port
could play HP-IB drive. I half-thought about using an R-pi. Banging the HPIB
handshake on the
pins of htat user port connecotr (with buffres added, of course).
the R-pi has just about everything else you need, includign a USB
host interface.
A USB host interface is only marginally more useful to me than it is to
you. Serial line or Ethernet - preferbaly serial line *and* Ethernet -
is what I'd want. And I wouldn't spend money on a pi in any case, not
when I've got plenty of perfectly good hardware lying around.
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