Are PIL-Boxes still available?

[in_denial]

I am another person who would like to get my hands on a PIL-Box! I have also emailed J-F in the past months, with no response yet.

I am happy to buy a batch of kits, build them up and sell on most of them.

I was thinking that given the electronics world has moved on since 2009, would it be possible for someone to design a simple add-on for a Raspberry Pi, Arduino or similar, and do the grunt work in software?

(Disclaimer, I'm a programmer, not an electronics engineer!)

I was thinking of something like a Pi Hat board which does the translation of HP-IL signals to/from GPIO input/output pins, and handle the rest in software (I.e. the stuff I am happy on which to work!)

I don't want to derail this thread, and would love it if J-F could produce more PIL-boxes, so if anyone wants to discuss it, we could start a new topic.

-- Tim