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Re: What kind of DIY projects are you currently working on?
« on: September 08, 2011, 04:32:50 PM »
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I have always wanted to build a PPC card :idea: but for now I am working on a home made sound sampler.


An adaptor (more likely a set of adaptors together) to fit my FPGA board to a Zorro slot. It's a PCI card format thing, and I was surprised that the PCI edge connector does not have enough signals for a Zorro slot. (PCI has more pins, but also more power, ground, and some PCI signals are noconnect on my board) So I'm looking to see where else I can get a few pins from, the 50pin header I can get I think 14 more from, the rest are shared with another item I don't want to conflict with. Once I'm done I should be able to plug this thing into a Zorro slot, and alternatively be able to plug a Zorro card "into" the PCI card. Ideally I want to be able to plug a Zorro backplane daughtercard from A3000 or A4000 desktop "into" the PCI card to have a full bus to play with in that direction. Then I can really play around. :) Might also be interesting to plug a Video-Slot card into the PCI card, such as a Toaster, but that doesn't interest me as much as toying with Zorro does.
Bill T
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