{"id":519,"date":"2012-07-02T20:12:20","date_gmt":"2012-07-02T18:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lallafa.de\/blog\/?p=519"},"modified":"2012-07-02T20:12:20","modified_gmt":"2012-07-02T18:12:20","slug":"introducing-plipbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lallafa.de\/blog\/2012\/07\/introducing-plipbox\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing plipbox"},"content":{"rendered":"

My plip2slip<\/a> project was the first attempt to build a cheap but quite powerful network adapter for my unmodified classic Amiga 500 to get it to the net. Its already a lot faster than a Paula based serial link but you need a host Mac\/PC speaking SLIP to finally reach the Internet…<\/p>\n

The next level is called the plipbox<\/a> project: Starting from a similar setup with an Arduino board I now added a cheap Ethernet module that allows direct access to your local network. Here is a photo of the resulting device:<\/p>\n

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The parallel connector is connected to your Amiga and the Ethernet cable is connected to the network module. Now run a TCP Stack on your Amiga with a MagPLIP network device driver and you can reach the Internet from your Amiga via plipbox… (The third cable on the left is the USB Arduion serial port I use to configure the parameters of the device like IP addresses)<\/p>\n

The project is not completed yet, but already at a stage where you can actually use it and play with it!<\/p>\n

The hardware design is already completely done and really simple to reproduce. Have a look a the hardware page<\/a> for all the glory details.<\/p>\n

On the software side there is still some clean up left to do but all basic things are working and I am already surfing the net with up to 50 KiB\/s on my Amiga…<\/p>\n

The complete source is open source (as usual!) and accessible on my GitHub repository: cnvogelg\/plipbox<\/a>. There you can follow the development. Currently only the source is available. So you need to build your own firmware image with a gcc-avr toolchain. I’ll release pre-build firmware snapshots next.<\/p>\n

Already done in firmware:<\/p>\n