{"id":53,"date":"2017-10-23T22:48:24","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T22:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/retroblog.garethdav.is\/?p=53"},"modified":"2017-10-23T22:48:24","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T22:48:24","slug":"arduino-to-econet-hardware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/retroblog.garethdav.is\/index.php\/2017\/10\/23\/arduino-to-econet-hardware\/","title":{"rendered":"Arduino to Econet hardware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The reason I started writing this blog, is to document my work on getting an Arduino board talking to an Acorn Econet network. The Arduino has MicroSD storage, and an Ethernet port (via a commonly available shield) , both of which I hope to make resources available on the Econet network. This should be better way of providing file and gateway resources onto an Econet network, than the solutions I spoke about in the previous blog post.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out that with an Arduino Due and a couple of level shifters you can just about communicate with an Econet card, and successfully load and send frames to an Econet network:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-58\" src=\"https:\/\/retroblog.garethdav.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/ArduinoEconet2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1078\" height=\"808\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And after several evenings of programming I&#8217;ve finally got to the stage where I can log on to the Arduino, and display the user directory on the SD card:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-55\" src=\"https:\/\/retroblog.garethdav.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/screen.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Right now there isn&#8217;t anything else you can do, other than logoff. But it&#8217;s a good start to work from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The reason I started writing this blog, is to document my work on getting an Arduino board talking to an Acorn Econet network. The Arduino has MicroSD storage, and an Ethernet port (via a commonly available shield) , both of which I hope to make resources available on the Econet network. This should be better &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/retroblog.garethdav.is\/index.php\/2017\/10\/23\/arduino-to-econet-hardware\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Arduino to Econet hardware&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[6,7],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-econet","tag-hardware","tag-networking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/retroblog.garethdav.is\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/retroblog.garethdav.is\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/retroblog.garethdav.is\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/retroblog.garethdav.is\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/retroblog.garethdav.is\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/retroblog.garethdav.is\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60,"href":"https:\/\/retroblog.garethdav.is\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/60"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/retroblog.garethdav.is\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/retroblog.garethdav.is\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/retroblog.garethdav.is\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}