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Ascending Mount FujiNet
Exploring an early-stage version of the FujiNet peripheral and network for the Tandy TRS-80 Color Computer Model 1
I ended up zip-tying the bare conductors into the case and then adding a couple extra zipties for strain relief, but this is not a production-quality job and it makes me a bit nervous every time I mess with the cable. As far as I understood it, this phenomenon was that the host computer’s power supply didn’t ramp up fast enough to satisfy the ESP32’s inrush demands, and so instead it became trapped in some kind of extremely grumpy torpor state. Anything that reduces this friction is a good idea in my book, and it’s just plain cool to be able to wirelessly beam the code you just assembled on your brand-new computer to a decades-old thing that got pulled out of a muddy shed.
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