There’s so much going on with this project we just can’t cover it all here.
When you insert the floppy, the pogo-pins raise up and contact the protoboard, connecting the SD card to a Teensy microcontroller. The drive itself has had the read head transplanted for some pogo pins (hey, we saw those earlier today). Instead, he’s added an SD card slot and some protoboard in the space for the read head. It still takes floppies, but there’s no magnetic media inside of them anymore.
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When the Mac is off the Dockstar still runs as a server.īut one of the best parts is the floppy drive. But what fun is a dead machine housing a headless server? To add to the fun he included an ARM processor running a Mac emulator, along with all the bits to make the screen, keyboard, and peripherals work. He had been wanting to do something with the Seagate Dockstar and decided it would find a nice home in the Mac. The retro hardware had a bad mainboard thanks to the corrosive properties of a failed backup-battery. cooked up an amazing hack by resurrecting a Mac SE using a Dockstar and ARM processor. Continue reading “Whistle Controls For You Home Electronics” → Posted in home hacks Tagged dockstar, fft, linux, outlet, remote control, RF, whistle Classic Game Emulation On The Dockstar It uses a Fast Fourier transform algorithm to process the clip and pushes commands to the remote control after processing is complete. In the video after the break explains that he’s using a Dockstar along with a microphone to capture audio input. The additional piece is the use of embedded Linux to detect and process whistled commands. The technique is simple enough that we’d bet you can get this to work with an ATtiny2313 and the V-USB project but that’s another story. The board you see in the image above is the remote control that came with the system, but that chip is an ATmega8 which he added to give round-about USB connectivity using a serial-to-USB converter. He’s using a set of RF remote control outlets to switch power to various devices like a desk lap, or a turn table.
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But do you know how to make the electronics around you react to your whistled commands? Well figured out a system that allows him to assign a whistled command to various home electronics. +++ a/arch/arm/mach-kirkwood/sheevaplug-setup.You know how to whistle don’t you? You just put your lips together and blow. Yes "" | make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-none-linux-gnueabi- oldconfig # Accept default options for any new kernel configs # Get the config from your current Dockstar kernel This assumes you have a cross-compile build environment configure as described here. The resulting kernel is configured exactly the same as the 'official' 2.6.32-5-kirkwood kernel but with Dockstar specific support for LEDs and the MTD partitions. Here are steps for building your own patched Debian kernel. The rest of this is just here for posterity: Make sure you're running a newer uBoot and set arcNumber to 2998. Note: Newer Debian kernels include support for the Dockstar LED.
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