![]() ![]() That is, until supply started to dry up and it became hard to tell if you were getting a genuine one or not. These boards are based on the STM32F103 ARM microcontroller, and are absolute pocket rockets for a very cheap price. There’s even a 3D-printed bracket to safely hold the board inside a computer, and a sticker.Īs you might expect from the name, the real brains of this setup is the STM32 “Blue Pill” evaluation board. ![]() Inside it was an anti-static bag containing all the parts of the board. The Bag of PartsĪ little while later, a blue(!) bubble-wrap envelope appeared in my mailbox. In any event, I ended up winning both a promotional button (which is nice) and a BlueSCSI (which is nicer, sorry Ron.) Eric Helgeson, the developer of the BlueSCSI firmware and hardware, asked if I wanted a complete unit or a kit for my prize. If you haven’t checked out Ron’s stuff, it’s well worth doing – he is also a weird nerd, and is very supportive of the community at large. Luckily, I was watching the Ron’s Computer Videos YouTube channel, and he had a big giveaway to celebrate getting a (well-deserved) subscriber count. There’s two reasons for this: one, I don’t actually possess any dead SCSI hard drives, and two, the STM32 “Blue Pill” evaluation board that my fork ran on had basically ceased to exist from the pandemic-related shortages and STM32 demand. However, I hadn’t actually taken the plunge to get one yet. The low cost, flexibility and potential of these designs are extremely appealing. I had known about BlueSCSI for awhile, and had even started building my own forked board of ArdSCSIno. It’s because I won a free kit, so I got to put it together myself. A great one of those options is the BlueSCSI, and I’m not just saying that because I won a free one. ![]() If you need a SCSI hard drive for your old computer, there are a lot of great options becoming available for a solid-state substitute. ![]()
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