USB2LT TashTalk Usb to LocalTalk

[twelvetone12]

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

 

[twelvetone12]

New boards arrived this week and I'm Happy to report they work very well!

 

[mg.man]

New boards arrived ... they work very well!

Ooo... nice & congrats! Will they be going in sale somewhere/time?

 

[tashtari]

New boards arrived this week and I'm Happy to report they work very well!

Cool, congratulations! I'm looking forward to having another TashTalk product out there.

 

[twelvetone12]

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.

Ooo... nice & congrats! Will they be going in sale somewhere/time?

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.

 

[demik]

Nice, good job !

 

[tashtari]

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...

 

[twelvetone12]

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.

 

[tashtari]

there was also a transceiver + transformer in a package IIRC mentioned in previous thread

I remember this too, but I can't find it now... hrm.

Time for me is quite limited now, but I can have a look in a couple weeks.

No rush!