Hello all,
I recently completed my older PiDP-8 kit in preparation to build my PiDP-10, but I stopped at the final build-out of my kit...
I'm stuck on the placement of the RPi board and the need to drill holes in the sides of the case for various ports - YUCK!
One thought was to use a Pi Zero 2 W, but I had issues getting the software to run properly, so that has me planning to use an RPi 3A+ board (it has fewer USB and no Ethernet ports, so it's smaller, but it still presses up against the top edge of the case.
I'm thinking of using an IDC 40 pin male/female cable to relocate the RPi board away from the edge of the case - something like this:
It's an 8" cable - in *theory* this should work, it's just an extension of the GPIO pins - but will the added length cause problems? I remember a discussion about the PiDP-10 likely having issues if you tried such a thing in it, but would it also be an issue for the PiDP-8? As I recall the issue was the high-speed signaling the PiDP-10 (with all those LEDs!), and I'm hoping the PiDP-8 wouldn't have the same issue.
Thoughts?
Anyone do something similar?
If this might be a problem, I can go back and revisit the Pi Zero 2 W idea...
Thanks in advance,