Raspberry PI PICO ATARI ST Hard Drive Emulator (WIP)

[alexh]

What are the dimensions so I can look for a case? I will use a few bits of plexiglass to begin with.

[exxos]

What are the dimensions so I can look for a case? I will use a few bits of plexiglass to begin with.

About 60x77mm.


Looks like a couple sold already then

:bravo:

[alexh]

Not possible to see from the angle of the photos but does the power supply connector go right to the PCB edge?

[exxos]

Not possible to see from the angle of the photos but does the power supply connector go right to the PCB edge?

Pretty much yeah, might be 1mm inset but I have the previous board not a revised one, so might not be exactly the same.

[chronicthehedgehog]

Cool. My first ST hard drive. Looking forward to this!
Looks like it will fit inside a cheapo project box as well - although it's first home will be cardboard and elastic bands :lol:

[JezC]

Cool. My first ST hard drive. Looking forward to this!
Looks like it will fit inside a cheapo project box as well - although it's first home will be cardboard and elastic bands :lol:

Sounds like a perfect opportunity for a kickstarter/crowdfunding... ;)

[exxos]

I did start doing a case design. Though currently it is up in the air if the board layout will change or not in the next revision . so there is no point at this point working on it at this point. I'm sure there is enough people with 3D printers to design one anyway.

[Badwolf]

I haz done a video of my board build:







Spoiler: it doesn't fully work yet. :-?

NB. This is the board I ordered back in December and is using the last published source before development went private. It has the same heritage, but is NOT the same as the Exxos model.

[exxos]

Interestingly you tweaked the PCB which I was talking to @dad664npc About doing that sort of style a couple weeks ago :lol: He is not so keen on that and prefers a cable type drive, but in terms of cost, that's adding quite a bit to the final price which could otherwise be avoided.

[Badwolf]

Interestingly you tweaked the PCB which I was talking to @dad664npc About doing that sort of style a couple weeks ago :lol: He is not so keen on that and prefers a cable type drive, but in terms of cost, that's adding quite a bit to the final price which could otherwise be avoided.

Haha.

Back in December when I was designing it he told me the same thing, so there's an optional IDC on there too! Belt and braces. :lol:

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