I did! but apparently that trace was inserted while I was preparing the board for production? I have no idea how, I can't draw it again! This time to be sure I printed out the gerber file 
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USB2LT TashTalk Usb to LocalTalk
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New boards arrived this week and I'm Happy to report they work very well!
Ooo... nice & congrats! Will they be going in sale somewhere/time?
Cool, congratulations! I'm looking forward to having another TashTalk product out there.
First 5 prototypes are mounted! It seems to work quite well, I'm very happy
I want to finish my modtashtalk so it can be used with netatalk, but I'm wondering if it is worth.
I want to finish my modtashtalk so it can be used with netatalk, but I'm wondering if it is worth.
Yes! My plan is to produce some and sale them. The project is also on git so people can build their own if they want. I will look into having these built and the costs, now I soldered the ICs by hand but it takes a bit and it is a quite fiddly to test them.Ooo... nice & congrats! Will they be going in sale somewhere/time?
Waking this thread up again...
It'd be great to make a version of this that supported an onboard transformer (discussion in this thread) and went directly to PhoneNet or LocalTalk miniDIN-3 connectors. I love the idea of having a USB LocalTalk dongle that looks like a vintage PhoneNet/LocalTalk dongle (with a 3D-printed enclosure, even!) but plugs into a modern machine via USB.
Putting a DIP-8 footprint on the board and shorting together pins 2-3 and 6-7 would work for the token ring transformers that I've found to work and likely for a range of other through-hole transformers too; a similar set of SMT pads in the same place would expand the compatibility further still...
It'd be great to make a version of this that supported an onboard transformer (discussion in this thread) and went directly to PhoneNet or LocalTalk miniDIN-3 connectors. I love the idea of having a USB LocalTalk dongle that looks like a vintage PhoneNet/LocalTalk dongle (with a 3D-printed enclosure, even!) but plugs into a modern machine via USB.
Putting a DIP-8 footprint on the board and shorting together pins 2-3 and 6-7 would work for the token ring transformers that I've found to work and likely for a range of other through-hole transformers too; a similar set of SMT pads in the same place would expand the compatibility further still...
I think it should be doable, there was also a transceiver + transformer in a package IIRC mentioned in previous thread?
Time for me is quite limited now, but I can have a look in a couple weeks.
Time for me is quite limited now, but I can have a look in a couple weeks.
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