> -----Original Message-----
>
> Steven has published the files and info needed to make them yourself. I
> have proven that nothing was missing by doing it and making a few, and
> writing up the steps, parts, and tools, and filling in some details into
> a more explicit recipe that more people should be able to follow, and
> put that on a wiki so that anyone else can improve the recipe even
> further.
>
> If you want to buy a rex, instead of build one for yourself, first you
> have to find someone who wants to build them for you. They need to be
> able to follow this:
>
> http://tandy.wiki/REX
When I saw this I have to admit I initially had the same letdown reaction I've
had in the past when I've asked about REX and been told 'go build your own'.
It seemed like a project that was totally out of reach for me - a bit like your
average home PC user would feel after being told 'tired of windows? Go install
Linux!'
In all the reading I have done on REX, I have never run across this wiki
before. I immediately went and read through your whole writeup a couple of
times. This is fantastic. In the space of time it took to read and digest
this, I went from feeling like this is an out-of-reach project to feeling like
this might actually be doable, and in fact might be something the kids and I
could do together. (I'll have to see how I handle SMD soldering before trying
to teach them, of course, heh.)
A couple of questions, if you don't mind:
- Your instructions reference a .jed file, which seems to be the code to be
programmed into the Xilinx chip, but I don't see a .jed file in any of the
resources linked off the wiki page... did I miss something?
- Is the REX board different for the T200 vs the M100 or is the difference only
in the files you load on the machine to set up the flash memory after the
Xilinx chip is programmed? I'm asking because I'd want to build several for
M100 and at least one for T200.
> and not enough people responded, and now time is short. So I did order
> the parts to make 3 rex's and maybe I'll build those or see if anyone
> else wants to build them at TA. I'm going away on vacation tomorrow and
(raises hand, waves it wildly...)
jim
