Sorry if this has been discussed before and I either missed it, forgot 
about it, or was gafiated when it was discussed.

I was visiting Adafruit today, and as I was looking at some of their 
arduino boards, I noticed that a lot of them have UARTs. Then I also 
came across FTDI cables and adapter boards.


Would it be possible, with the BCR hack, to connect one of the FTDI 
cables/adapter boards to the M100, thus permitting connection to a 
modern PC via USB, as one would an arduino board?


Further, would it be possible to connect via the BCR to the UART (or 
other appropriate pins, I'm no arduino expert) on one of the (very) 
small arduino boards that has wifi, spi, i2c, bluetooth, thus indirectly 
giving these capabilities to the M100? The wifi and/or bluetooth would 
allow wireless connections to networks and phones (similar to the 
devices that attach to actual rs232 serial ports) and other bluetooth 
devices, and I would think the arduino board could be connected to the 
host of sensors and controllers available on places like adafruit, thus 
enabling everything from temperature, capacitive touch, leds, lcd 
displays (within the communications limitations of the BCR), terminal 
emulation, mouse/joystick controls, external keyboard, etc.

It could be placed in a 3d-printed case that could clip onto the side of 
the M100.


Is this possible, or a dumb idea?

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