Interface the Raspberry Pi Zero W to Commodore 64

Leif Bloomquist has designed a board to interface the Raspberry Pi Zero W to the Commodore 64 through the User Port.

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Raspberry Pi Zero W / Commodore 64 Interface Board

Project goals:

1. Get a Linux shell prompt on your C64 through the Pi Zero’s Console Pins.

2. Use the Pi Zero as a virtual Floppy Disk Drive through raspbiec (https://github.com/Flogistoni/raspbiec) (another option is ninepin, https://github.com/FozzTexx/ninepin)

3. Allow your C64 to access the Internet, USB, etc. through the Pi Zero. ssh!

4. Provide Composite Video out from the Pi Zero that is usable directly on a Commodore monitor.

5. (Stretch Goal #1) If possible – use your C64’s keyboard as the keyboard on the Pi Zero (through the serial port). Maybe through softwedge? (https://github.com/theatrus/softwedge)

6. (Stretch Goal #2) Add PWM audio output (along the lines of https://learn.adafruit.com/introducing-the-raspberry-pi-zero/audio-outputs)

 

  • 1 × Commodore 64
  • 1 × Raspberry Pi Zero W
  • 1 × 75HC245 For 5V / 3.3V translation
  • 1 × Custom board To be designed.

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Interface the Raspberry Pi Zero W to Commodore 64

Pi0CKET-tiny

From moosepr on Hackaday.io:

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Pi0CKET-tiny

Possibly the worlds smallest Pi based gaming device!

 

Our 0.8mm thickness 2 layer service was used to make it as slim as possible:

 

The designs for a 3-D printed case are shared on the Hackaday.io project page:

 

 

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Smaller version of GameBoy Zero

moosepr designed this small and simple GameBoy-style device using the Raspberry Pi Zero:

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I’m not overly fond of ‘rats nest’ wires, and I have a bit of an obsession with making things as small as possible, so this is what I came up with.

Tis just an ILI9341 screen, a Pi Zero, 2 navi switches (5 way), and a battery (with charge/protect circuit)

petay has shared the board on OSH Park:

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Order from OSH Park

Here the board is in action:

 

Smaller version of GameBoy Zero

Raspberry Pi Zero W desk clock

Nick Sayer created a LED desk clock driven by NTP on a Raspberry Pi Zero W:

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Raspberry Pi Zero W desk clock

When I was in college, I bought and built a Heathkit GC-1000 WWV clock. Since then, I’ve been somewhat interested in accurate time measurement. I recently designed a GPS driven clock, but sometimes your local WiFi reception is better than GPS (say, indoors). For those circumstances, a clock that gets time from NTP over WiFi would be preferable. The newly released Raspberry Pi Zero W makes this quite a bit simpler to achieve
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Raspberry Pi Zero W desk clock

IceZero FPGA Board for Raspberry Pi

Black Mesa Labs created this board that adds a Lattice FPGA to a Raspberry Pi:

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IceZero FPGA Board for RaspPi

BML has been very much enchanted with the Lattice FPGA boards for Raspberry Pi, IcoBoard , BlackIce and IceHat. The IceZero board is a BML creation that attempts to combine the best features of all 3 boards into a single design.

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IceZero features common with other designs

  • Fully Open-Source Hardware and Software Design.
  • Lattice ICE40HX4K FPGA that supports Clifford Wolf’s Project IceStorm tool chain.
  • Interfaces to Raspberry Pi 2×20 GPIO Header for both power and bus interfaces.
  • PROM programmable directly from Rasp Pi, no JTAG programmer required.
  • External SRAM, supporting soft CPU core designs ( code execution ).
  • Extra large SPI PROM, supporting soft CPU core designs ( code storage ).
  • Industry standard PMOD expansion headers

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IceZero features that are BML specific

  • Mesa Bus Protocol 32 MHz SPI link between CPU and FPGA.
  • 2-Layer PCB design. Orderable via OSH-Park or Gerbers for Downloading.
  • FTDI 1×6 USB Serial Cable header for use with PC instead of Pi ( or as a soft CPU debug Trace Port ).
  • Single Pi UART plumbed to FPGA for muxing to multiple external serial devices.

BlackMesaLabs has shared the board on OSH Park:

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BML IceZero Lattice ICE40 FPGA for RaspPi

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Order from OSH Park

IceZero FPGA Board for Raspberry Pi

Give Your RPi a Cool FPGA Hat

Need additional, custom IO for your Raspberry Pi? Adding an FPGA is a logical way to expand your IO, and allow for high speed digital interfaces. [Eric Brombaugh]’s Icehat adds a Lattice iCE5LP4K-SG48 FPGA in a package that fits neatly on top of the Raspberry Pi Zero. It also provides a few LEDs and Digilent compatible PMOD connectors […]

via Give Your RPi a Cool FPGA Hat — Hackaday

Give Your RPi a Cool FPGA Hat