Arduino IL Drive Sim read good write bad

[ThomasF]

Inspired by all ideas here I have "upgraded" my PIL-box with a ESP8266 (Lolin D1 Mini) running on battery.
So now I have (sort of) connected my HP41 to my PC over WiFi ...

At the moment I'm still in developping mode, so I re-flash and debug the ESP using WiFi, but my plan is to enable a file-server so I can up- and down-load files from the PC to the "virtual" drive.
The virtual drives and the printer/display seems to work - I can save and retrieve files from the SD-card, and the next step would be to expose the SD-card to a fileserver.

First step would be to handle LIF-files, but after that it would be great to handle files within the LIF-file (ie being able to download directly from the PC to the LIF-file on the SD-card).

Also by creating some other virtual device that could utilize WiFi, ie a MQTT enabled WiFi-GPIO device that could send commands to my home system, turning on lights, reading status or what ever ... endless possibilities, so little time ...

But, first I should find a nicer encloser to the boards. Battery etc will not fit in the nice PIL-box any more ...

Cheers,
Thomas