Post 2602343 by bhtooefr@cathoderay.tube
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 (DIR) Post #2602153 by MasterControlProgram@hackers.town
       2019-01-03T15:18:56Z
       
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       Over the holiday shopping season, microcenter ran a deal on the Pi 0w. $5, limit one. I don't have a microcenter near me, but I was visiting some friends that do (so now you have enough information about me to determine that I have friends in one of fiftish regions that could be considered Near Microcenter. I'm just days away from doxing myself) and I bought one. I now have a tiny computer with wifi and bluetooth connectivity that cost me five dollars. I'm trying to decide what to do with it.
       
 (DIR) Post #2602341 by MasterControlProgram@hackers.town
       2019-01-03T15:23:17Z
       
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       Top contenders: - Set it up to allow local SSH over wifi, and configure a couple of bluetooth serial ports. Use it as a local tilde server. - Install a PDP-8 (or other minicomputer) emulator. Use it as a local mainframe. - Connect it to a spare television, write a script to have w3m or lynx cycle through various web pages (news headlines, stats, Mastodon feeds, etc.)
       
 (DIR) Post #2602342 by ajroach42@retro.social
       2019-01-03T16:05:43Z
       
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       @MasterControlProgram I keep toying with wiring one directly to my HP 200LX's serial port.
       
 (DIR) Post #2602343 by bhtooefr@cathoderay.tube
       2019-01-03T17:04:25.738272Z
       
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       @ajroach42 @MasterControlProgram So @calvin pointed out that it's thin enough that you could make a Pi-powered PCMCIA card...You'd have to remove some connectors to make it actually practical, but I think there's enough room to get a CPLD/small FPGA bridging between the PCMCIA bus and a Pi 0W in there, maybe adapting some of the NetPI-IDE work (but because you're on PCMCIA you get more signals to work with and can do things in more standard ways): https://www.retrotronics.org/home-page/netpi-ide/
       
 (DIR) Post #2602593 by bhtooefr@cathoderay.tube
       2019-01-03T17:10:23.474200Z
       
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       @ajroach42 @MasterControlProgram @calvin That said, if I were gonna do that, I'd advise very aggressive underclocking - a Pi 0W at idle is running at 120 mA, and is at 160-170 mA under load it appears. (IIRC it'll idle at 700 MHz stock, but it should run fine at much lower speeds.)150 mA is the maximum allowed draw from the PCMCIA port on the 200LX.