{"id":59018,"date":"2023-01-25T10:53:18","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T15:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=014bf41cba6d308195b58cfee71000f7"},"modified":"2023-01-25T10:53:18","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T15:53:18","slug":"bluescsi-v2-pico-announced-for-retrocomputing-storage-vintagecomputing-scsi-opensource-bluescsi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=59018","title":{"rendered":"BlueSCSI v2 Pico announced for retrocomputing storage #VintageComputing #SCSI #OpenSource @BlueScsi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.adafruit.com\/2023\/01\/25\/bluescsi-v2-pico-announced-for-retrocomputing-storage-vintagecomputing-scsi-opensource-bluescsi\/\">adafruit industries blog<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: Ohh, yeah.  The \"cheap\" SCSI emulators are continuing to get more performant and aren't getting more expensive, this is good news, and timely.  \nThe giant Micropolis HDD in my HP9000\/735 is looking dead, my Sparcstation10 hates all CD drives, and my SCSI2SD is mounted inside my PowerMac 6100\/66 DOS at the moment, so I've been investigating options.<\/div><p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-blog.adafruit.com\/uploads\/2023\/01\/one-122.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn-blog.adafruit.com\/uploads\/2023\/01\/one-122.png 650w,https:\/\/cdn-blog.adafruit.com\/uploads\/2023\/01\/one-122-300x113.png 300w,https:\/\/cdn-blog.adafruit.com\/uploads\/2023\/01\/one-122-600x225.png 600w,https:\/\/cdn-blog.adafruit.com\/uploads\/2023\/01\/one-122-150x56.png 150w,https:\/\/cdn-blog.adafruit.com\/uploads\/2023\/01\/one-122.png 650w,https:\/\/cdn-blog.adafruit.com\/uploads\/2023\/01\/one-122-300x113.png 300w,https:\/\/cdn-blog.adafruit.com\/uploads\/2023\/01\/one-122-600x225.png 600w,https:\/\/cdn-blog.adafruit.com\/uploads\/2023\/01\/one-122-150x56.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"\/><\/p><p>BlueSCSI is an open source, open hardware, and open design SCSI solution for vintage computers.<\/p><p>The original version 1.x devices use a &ldquo;Blue Pill&rdquo; microcontroller board based on ST chips. Due to the chip shortages, clone ST chips have often been used.<\/p><p>Today the team announced <strong>BlueSCSI v2!<\/strong><\/p><ul><li>BlueSCSI v2 is based on the Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller and a fork of ZuluSCSI&rsquo;s SCSI2SD code<\/li>\n<li>It is open source, open hardware, and open design.<\/li>\n<li>It is fast, pushing 10MB\/sec.<\/li>\n<li>It comes in 3 models, Desktop, Laptop, and DB25.<\/li>\n<li>It has tons of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/bluescsi.com\/v2#new\"  rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new features.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>It is available now to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/bluescsi.com\/buy\"  rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">build yourself or buy.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><blockquote><p><strong>BlueSCSI v2<\/strong>&nbsp;targets the Raspberry Pi Pico (not the Pi) which uses the RP2040 microcontroller. Like before we&rsquo;re building on the shoulders of those who came before us &ndash; namely this code base is based on the ZuluSCSI&rsquo;s SCSI2SD. This is a joint effort between Eric(nulleric) the maintainer of BlueSCSI and Jacob(Androda) a core BlueSCSI developer and maintainer of the F4 BlueSCSI fork.<\/p>\n<p>We&rsquo;ve added our &ldquo;special sauce&rdquo; to the hardware and software. Hardware for BlueSCSI v2 will be released under the same Creative Commons Non-Commercial license as BlueSCSI v1 &ndash; we believe in open hardware and this will allow you to build the device yourself if you like.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The original BlueSCSI isn&rsquo;t dead!<\/strong>&nbsp;We will continue to support and port features to the F1\/F4 versions of BlueSCSI as we can. Not all features can be ported back, and speeds are more limited on the earlier models.<\/p><\/blockquote><p>See the <a href=\"https:\/\/bluescsi.com\/v2\"  rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">product page<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/erichelgeson\/bluescsi\"  rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GitHub<\/a> for all the details. Efforts like this are what open source is about.<\/p><div><\/div>\n<span><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BlueSCSI is an open source, open hardware, and open design SCSI solution for vintage computers.The o&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=59018\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}