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Using a laptop optical drive slot to house a dedicated RasPi sub-processor

cruz53
cruz53 over 10 years ago

Hi Ben,

     I use my Raspberry Pi via my laptop quite frequently for software development and it is always awkward having to connect to it externally via serial or a crossover cable. I also have a CDROM that goes entirely unused. I was thinking it would be awesome to make a raspberry pi case that could fit inside that CDROM slot and be wired internally. Ultimately the perfect install would be one where the Enet ports of both the laptop and the RasPi are free and the RasPi I/O is still accessible. (possibly it could be pulled out in the same fashion as the CDROM?)

 

Thanks Ben I know it's possible, please show me the way!

Jim

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    kidiccurus over 10 years ago

    You would probably have to open the laptop up and rewire or even replace the connector to have the pi connect to your laptop in a usable way. Moving the ports and io is not to hard, but the risk!to your laptop is probably to!extreme for this to be worth attempting.

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    cruz53 over 10 years ago in reply to kidiccurus

    Could be powered off a 1:1 isolation transformer or similar

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    cruz53 over 10 years ago in reply to kidiccurus

    Could be powered off a 1:1 isolation transformer or similar

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