Palm pilots as mios interfaces?

[Guest XORNOT]

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

[Captain_Hastings]

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:

Playmidi

BeatPad

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

[smashtv]

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

[DrBunsen]

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.