Gordon McComb wrote “The Robot Builder’s Bonanza” starting back in the ‘80s and has updated it fairly regularly. It started with CMOS and TTL circuits, and interfacing them with Apple II, Model 100, IBM PC/AT machines, etc. He’s updated it through the years to include Arduino, wifi controllers, etc. Hit the interwebs and look for the ‘80s and 90s versions. They’re packed full of circuits for Model 100 interfacing, and a lot of mechanical ideas for walking robots, mechanical arms, fire suppression ideas, all kinds of things. They’re a great series of books and I’ve used ideas in them for all kinds of other projects along the way.
—Justin > On Jul 3, 2022, at 6:42 PM, Brian White <[email protected]> wrote: > > There are TWO people with these robots??? > > Haha that does make the most sense since it fits. > > It's a different situation with the M100 because although there is room for > a normal socket (not zif) with a dip chip in it, the pinout is non-standard, > and there is no room for a socket plus a pinout adaper with it's own socket. > Plus there are old commercial roms and new accessories like REX that only fit > in the original socket with the original pinout that you want to remain > compatible with. > > -- > bkw > > On Sun, Jul 3, 2022, 5:45 PM Scott McDonnell <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > Yes that was me. I ordered the boards and the 3D printed parts, but I ended > up just installing a ZIF socket in both of my RB5X robots as that was more > convenient both for programming the parts and using them. After I had > disassembled the robot, I realized that the footprint for the custom molex > socket was compatible with a regular DIP socket and the cutout in the panel > was big enough for a ZIF socket. > > A friend did use your 3D printed DIP adapter without any issue since he did > not want to modify his robot. > > > Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2022 16:53:09 -0400 > From: Brian White <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [M100] Robotics projects with the M100 > > Hello! Was it you that I spoke with a few times about the 28-pin version of > the Molex carrier and eeprom adapter pcb? How did you ever make out with > that? Did you try it and did it work? I couldn't actually test it myself so > I was worried there could be some trivial mistake. > > -- > bkw
