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I've said before I really like the new HW projects from Spanish Atari HW developer Diego Parrilla aka SidecarTridge

His latest products are Croissant and Soufflé. These are bluetooth keyboard, mouse and joypad adapters for the Atari STf/STe and MegaST/MegaSTe/TT030

They connect to the keyboard connector and work exactly as you hoped only easier to use than you can imagine.

You can still use the existing keyboard, mouse, joystick ports, no modifications to the MB, Configuration/pairing is done using an integrated Wifi webpage.

I'm curious to see what the latency is like but it looks very very good (as always)

https://x.com/sidecartridge/status/2057046226046971982

Good stuff !

Thanks for sharing.

Count with me:

- SidecarTridge TOS Emulator
- SidecarTridge Croissant Keyboard Emulator
- SidecarTridge Multi-device

That's three RPi computers powered by and running in your Atari ST. Wouldn't be easier to use, you know, just one RPi without Atari getting in the way. ;)

(don't get me wrong, I admire Diego's dedication to all those gadgets but my engineer's heart just cries seeing such a huge waste of computing power)

mikro wrote: 21 May 2026 00:51 three RPi computers

Microcontrollers. These are the pico variant. But I hear you.

alexh wrote: 21 May 2026 16:13

mikro wrote: 21 May 2026 00:51 three RPi computers

Microcontrollers. These are the pico variant. But I hear you.

Quite. They're more akin to the IKBD controller than a proper RPi.

Admittedly several fantastically fast and ludciously capable IKBDs, but YKWIM. :)

I'm minded of the early Apple Laserwriter printers who had more processing power in them than the Macs they were meant to output from! :D

BW

Must admit, I like the look of Diego's latest bit of kit. I have his MultiDevice which I looooove :)