Announcing BlueSCSI Toolbox – Web Edition

[eric]

Been a while without an update - life has been pretty busy! But my Alpha testers gave some great feedback and I have two items left on my list to release a public Alpha. One thing that will change is the pin-out - allowing for some stacking like @Stinkerton18 did here

 

[JDW]

...allowing for some stacking...

Two Pico units stacked atop each other for what purpose?

 

[eric]

Two Pico units stacked atop each other for what purpose?

For the topic of this thread - one running the web toolbox - the other scsi.

 

[wottle]

Been a while without an update - life has been pretty busy! But my Alpha testers gave some great feedback and I have two items left on my list to release a public Alpha. One thing that will change is the pin-out - allowing for some stacking like @Stinkerton18 did here

So the are all the pins connected on the outside of the Pico? Does that mean my mis-ordered batch that don't have the JST connector will be fine without it?

 

[eric]

It just will be an option - the i2c pins are lined up, the ground pins are lined up - so if you want to do a little soldering you could do this. I dont think it'll be _the_ default but it's _an_ option.

 

[Stinkerton18]

So the are all the pins connected on the outside of the Pico? Does that mean my mis-ordered batch that don't have the JST connector will be fine without it?

This is part of the reason why I did it the way I did. I didn't have a JST connector to plug into the BlueSCSI PCB (still don't) but wanted to test out the WebUI. Stacked like this does make pressing the button to flash/update the firmware on the "BlueSCSI" Pico a little tricky, but it works quite well.

 

[wottle]

This is part of the reason why I did it the way I did. I didn't have a JST connector to plug into the BlueSCSI PCB (still don't) but wanted to test out the WebUI. Stacked like this does make pressing the button to flash/update the firmware on the "BlueSCSI" Pico a little tricky, but it works quite well.

Makes sense. Hopefully not flashing the firmware too often.

And for context, I just have done something incorrect when trying to use my own parts for the JST connectors on JLCPCB because when the boards helped up, everything was populated (including the LEDs that I swapped in because they were also out of stock) except that JST connector. I didn’t mind the idea of soldering them in for the subset of the v2s I was planning on adding WiFi control to, but I really like the piggyback method here. Keeps everything tidy and solves my lack of connector problem! Thanks for testing this and working to make it a reality.