> This post is about modifying an asus eeepc 7inch notebook into accepting > a pc card. You are invite to contribute.
Following up on the "RK3399" email: > For your information, I am in a censorship dispute with lkcl. I do > not know what he will come up with. Maybe some or all of my > posts will be stopped. I'm going to get an EEEoma Wiki up in the following week and start documenting everything there; if you end up losing posting privileges, feel free to email me directly. > I do not follow lkcl's opposition on this. He's trying to make sure that the resulting design is safe and 1) won't ruin reputation of EOMA68 2) will be a good reference design for other designers that want to make EOMA68-compatible things, so that their designs won't ruin the EOMA68 reputation. > It is a weller sp 40l 40w. It seems to have a wide tip, so I'm wondering if it's suitable for soldering things like a 0.8-pitch connector... We'll see. At worst, you can get a working soldering iron for $5 from China, and a set of good tips for $5 more. > In case I did not mention it before. I have a raspberry pi 0 and > a beaglebone black revision c if that could be useful. Those could be useful for testing, I think. > I still have the asus eeepc's mainboard. That's great =) So we likely can harvest a couple of chips from it if necessary. > The pocketchip's keyboard is an i2c keyboard. Is the asus > eeepc's keyboard also an i2c keyboard? The pocketchip's keyboard, just like the EEE PC keyboard, is not I2C by itself - it's a key matrix, and there's usually a controller that connects to this key matrix. In PocketCHIP's case, it talks I2C - in case of EEE PC, that controller is a part of Embedded Controller on the EEE PC mainboard (which controls a whole load of functions), so we're making our own controller by taking a microcontroller, putting it on a board with a 28-pin connector and writing a firmware for it. > Instead of > modifying the asus eeepc's keyboard into an usb > keyboard, what about i2c connecting the keyboard to > the pc card? Either that, or use PS2 - since we likely will have a PS2-USB chip anyway (for the touchpad). The benefit of using PS/2 is that we won't need to write our own kernel driver - however, we will need to find a way to reliably source PS2-UAB converter chips, or converter boards. > To my knowledge you can use the > beaglebone black revision c to test i2c devices. You can also use the Pi Zero for the same task, if I understand you correctly (just FYI). > I have this forestalled remark. I would prefer not to cut > in the asus eeepc's cabinet. If I do it wrongly, I do not have > another cabinet. Hmm. That's tricky - I was planning to suggest the "cutting" approach, but I don't know of a good way to cut into the cabinet so that it's easy and mistake-proof. Thankfully, I have 2 spare cases to experiment with, and I have some ideas =) > Instead at the bottom of the asus eeepc there is a removable > plate. There is a balk which likely can be removed. I would > prefer to insert the pc card by that plate. I'll measure it and see if it's suitable - that is, if we can even insert the card. I can't yet imagine how it would work, but I will think about it. (the space inside the EEE case is quite limited, so there's only so many ways to keep the card in). > I have not been able to find something like the pcmcia/eoma > 68 breakout board. Should we not find a shop to buy > one? I haven't yet found PCMCIA breakouts (or EOMA68 breakouts, for that matter), so it's not a commodity item, and I'm guessing that places that have them will have it at high prices, just because it's not that popular. Lkcl has breakouts listed on Crowdsupply, but I imagine there's some time until they will be manufactured and available. Until that, we can either work on other tasks - and, later on, we can design our own breakouts if it proves necessary. Cheers! Arsenijs _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list arm-netbook@lists.phcomp.co.uk http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to arm-netb...@files.phcomp.co.uk
