Just wondering if Thorsten or anyone else has looked into adding Palm Pilots as midibox modules. Seems to me it has potential, given that the screen is a nice size, and could be used for extra display or buttons. Mostly I like the idea because an old Palm is basically worth next to nothing now.
thanks
iain
You can do some kewl stuff with an old Palm Pilot… like adding a midi out port.
I once built one for my old Handspring Visor and it works ok. Even wrote a small app that allowed to vary 2 midi CCs X/Y axis style with the stylus.
This soft is pretty nice as well:
Once my SID midibox is in a housing i’m going to experiment with Palm midi out -> SID + clock sync to a GameBoy with Nanoloop.
Oldskool bliss… ;D
There is an unusual developer environment for palm (and other targets including PIC mcu’s) called xpad. Works like Max or PD with the concept of state machine programming and uses a drag & drop flowchart style - not lines of code - to write apps.
Check out this old thread for more:
http://www.midibox.org/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=concepts;action=display;num=1099078528;start=1#1
Best!
Smash
PalmOrb looks promising. It emulates a Matrix Orbital LK204-25 20 character 4 line serial LCD. TK and Argtrak have put together a driver for this class of LCD (if I am reading this post correctly). Alternatively, a creative hacker could download the sourcecode and add support for HD44780 type LCDs, graphic LCDs etc.