Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Making an Arduino Uno Computer

Hello everyone!

I've become interested in an idea lately. My idea is to make a computer interface out of an Arduino Uno microcontroller. Check out Arduino.cc if you don't know what I'm talking about when I say Arduino Uno.

Anyways, for this I'm going to need a few things, and I want to have as many options as I possibly can in each category, so suggestions are 150% welcome.


The things I'm going to need are as follows:

1)Some form of a BASIC/FORTH interpreter or something like that. I'm thinking probably BitLash (http://bitlash.net/wiki/start) because I don't really want to code my own. Any ideas?

2)Some way to register keyboard input. I'll like mostly use a PS/2 interface, I think I have an old P2/2 keyboard lying around...and I'll probably use this to set up the interface, but again, all suggestions are welcome.

3)Some way to store to external memory. I'll probably use an SD card or microSD card interface, and I think there's a shield I can buy to help me out with that.



And if this sounds interesting to you, here are some activity boards/forums I posted on:

Arduino Forums

Omnimaga.org

Cemetech.net

Stack Exchange

^^Lotta useful info on these sites. Check them out!

3 comments:

  1. It's been done with a PIC32 - http://geoffg.net/maximite.html

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  2. Thanks, tronixstuff. I'll be sure to check that out, see what I can learn from it.

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