Announcing BlueSCSI Toolbox – Web Edition

[my03]

Hi Eric, very happy owner of a multitude of BS units here (PB180, SE/30 and Roland XV8080)

I saw that the capability of using a web-ui to alter ISO mounts, etc but then i found out that it required a separate Pico with qwiic connectivity to make it work. Meanwhile, i saw comments that an extra Pico was not required (?). What is actually needed in order to connect to a device and then swap the images?

 

[eric]

Hi Eric, very happy owner of a multitude of BS units here (PB180, SE/30 and Roland XV8080)

I saw that the capability of using a web-ui to alter ISO mounts, etc but then i found out that it required a separate Pico with qwiic connectivity to make it work. Meanwhile, i saw comments that an extra Pico was not required (?). What is actually needed in order to connect to a device and then swap the images?

I initially started working on a quiic connected pico but that was scraped as noted earlier in this thread to sync up with PicoIDE's front panel - which connects via quiic(i2c) for v2 and SPI for Ultra.

Hope that helps. it's been an evolving story but now we're here and have something pretty great.

Edit; i've updated the main post to avoid confusion, you can still see the original edit/pictures for history.

 

[JAG]

Any plans to offer/opensource a small ESP32 board that could mount next to an internal bluescsi for use in something like a Quadra700 or SE/30 where there is no external 3.5" bay available?

 

[eric]

Any plans to offer/opensource a small ESP32 board that could mount next to an internal bluescsi for use in something like a Quadra700 or SE/30 where there is no external 3.5" bay available?

Thats exactly what this is, or am I missing something?

 

[JAG]

Most old Macs do not have external 3.5" drive bays to install this into. I suppose you could just leave it in the enclosure with the screen, buttons, etc unused.

 

[eric]

ahh now I get what you're asking - and yes since it's all opensource I hope someone in the community can build some "headless" or alternatives to the 3.5" bay. You could probably get by directly wiring a esp32 and flashing it too for the cheapest/smallest headless version.