Elfi, known bug enjoyer @elfi@pixie.town

@foone @hack Maybe one of those sound-playing greeting cards could be hacked to do it

@jsstaedtler nope, still cute

My roommate's sick and I'm worried it's covid. She can't test because last time she tried, she got a bad nosebleed. Now I'm stuck here worrying about my exposure, behind on my vaccine due to the way life lined up, and unable to sleep

@derSammler I've found a USB host board that has instructions on how to decode a serial stream from the device and send it back over the UART. This unfortunately looks like it'll take some time and technical knowhow to implement, but it may be viable for your use case. https://www.hobbytronics.co.uk/product/host-board

@derSammler reviewing the thread from a browser, it does look a fair bit easier, but would still likely require a microcontroller that can negotiate with the device if there isn't a solution already. I'll see what I can find

@derSammler I've never heard of such a thing myself. For naive intentions, I don't think that'd even be physically possible... even over low speed, USB's rate is 1.5Mbaud, well over the maximum rate of RS-232's 115kbaud.

If some other device like a rsspberry pi or arduino handled negotiation and flow control, it'd be theoretically possible to send only the relevant messages over its UART in a way that's compatible with existing digitizer drivers, but that's a lot of bespoke work

Is there no way to fit the computer with a USB expansion card?

One nice thing about my new workstation is that it has a square cutout that's nominally for a plastic insert with the model number, but it's roughly the size of Ye Olde Case Badge and I happened to keep my Linux one from over a decade ago, plus other trinkets c:

@lyncia it is the fate of tiny girls apparently ;;

@KS oh heck yes!!

@KS I really hope this will have MVS support