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Sunday, July 29, 2018

ChibiTerm - Milestone: ChibiTerm live demo - Dockstar serial console

Projects / ChibiTerm  Original post date: 03/28/2016

Modded my Dockstar to add a console serial port here. It is made by Seagate as a NAS. I have installed Arch Linux on it - see instruction here.

I spliced the power connection to have the 5V (instead of 3.3V) needed for the PS/2 keyboard. The epoxy is barely cured before I have to hook it up to the ChibiTerm for this demo.

Dockstar's serial port is connected powers the ChibiTerm breadboard. ChibiTerm drives my monitor and a PS/2 keyboard. Right now it is a dumb terminal as none of the ANSI sequences nor the non-character keys are implemented, but it is sufficient to work as a serial console. The cursor is working too. :)


The following demo shows the Dockstar booting up, a few commands were typed on my PS/2 keyboard on a 80x40 line VGA screen. Youtube demo is here:


Since ChibiTerm boots up instantly, it can catch early boot messages.


BTW, the serial port is running at 115,200bps with no handshaking. :)


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