Seiera, awesome :-) Good luck on getting it to work! I’ll check back here every once and a while to see if you had any success.

Are you using Smartie to drive the LCD/Palm? I downloaded it even though I don’t have one, but it looks very impressive. http://lcdsmartie.sourceforge.net/
That is, of course, if you’re running Windows.

And brad, that sounds like a cool idea… someone should really look into that! the only thing I could see being a problem is the size being too small (or resolution), but what do I know. ;-)

nifty. i’ve been wanting to do something with my old IIIxe. is there anything like this that exists for a nintendo gameboy (an original monochrome in my case)? i’ve kept both of those (along with a laptop with a dead mobo) around just in case an interesting hack came along. :o)

great idea, i’ve had my clie sl-10 collecting dust for about a year now.. Now i will try to hook it up on a ac adapter of 3v.. and display my winamp, and incoming emails. Does anybody know if i could connect my palm to a remote homecontrol set. I mean these cheap sets you can get to turn off lights and dim halogen.. Maybe a simple serial port hack? I have no programming experience but it will be cool though if you could control your lightings with a touchscreen, and time control them.. hihi

Anyone have any luck getting this to run with OS X?

Hell yeah, this is great.

Palm Zire off ebay: $30.
Software to make an LCD out of it: $0

The real Matrix Orbital LK204-25: $82.95 + shipping and 5|<1|_|_5.

rueben26, the car idea is a great one. What is also cool about using it in a car, is that you could permanently leave the PDA powered on. The current draw is so low that it shouldn’t drain your car battery. This way it’ll always be ready and you won’t have to launch the software (I imagine you have to launch it and it doesn’t just start when you power the PDA up).

Not to mention it’d be cool to have a built in organizer into your car!

hi matrox,

well, i _do_ recommend the m105 if you want it to use a local data display in connection with a 3V power supply. actually, two triple-a batteries last about ~12h in the pda, and there’s neither an internal accu nor an official power supply – you have to connect the wires to the battery contacts of the pda. now, if you want to carry your pda around, you’ll always have to disconnect the cables and insert batteries – too much work in my opinion. the alternative is to use batteries all the time, but you can’t recharge accus with the docking station, and the docking station does _not_ power the m105. my pc is running 24/7, that’s why i’m using this standard power supply.

and the blurry picture is mainly because of my digicam, but the refresh rate of the pda display isn’t brilliant either.. it’s always _a bit_ blurry when text scrolls or winamp visualizations run. it’s not too extreme, you’ll put up with it i think.

all in all, the m105 is brilliant for local use next to your pc.

i’ve created two short videos with my digicam to give you an impression (low quality, and remember – it’s still my digicam that adds parts of the blurry pixel movement on the m105′s screen :) ):

http://kuerzer.de/m105.day
http://kuerzer.de/m105.night

just take a look…

regards,

j0ch

Thanks for the cool videos! The night one looked cool! Yea, what I was thinking of doing was running it off AAA’s, just don’t use backlighting, and be able to take it out of the cradle if I want to bring it with me anywhere. But I realize that idealisticly that won’t work since the batteries still would only last a few days at the most, and would be a waste of money.

…30 minutes without power before data loss? Try less then one minute! The PDA has a tiny capacitor that acts as a battery and discharges when the batteries are removed. The problem is that Palm made some kind of design flaw and the capacitor gets too much voltage and they fail. So, numerous people report that no matter how fast they swap batteries, data loss still occurs…

I might end up getting a different model that is more friendly to being used as a standard PDA and for the LCD display hack. Perhaps a rechargable PDA would be the best since I imagine it charges while in the cradle, and would never die out.

Thanks again for the cool vids :-)

hmm.. i wonder if i could disassemble one of these and make it a part of a case mod..
like all those new cases with temp/ram readout lcds

ooops, forgot the pics:
http://jasonhilton.us/v-web/gallery/treo

Wow, this is *awesome!* It’d be great to somehow mod this into the front of my case, rip out a few of those FDD slots maybe.

Anyway, how do you get it fullscreen on the palm? Looks a little lame so small on mine, but I see everone else has it so I must be missing something.

I got a M100 just to run this PalmOrb.
The software has been updated and modified quite a bit recently. I believe he has added USB palm support to the software also (m100 doesn’t use usb so can’t test that out).

To get it fullscreen, poke at that top thing, screen, then you can set the font. I like the “Bold, Scaled 7×24″ option. Fills most of the screen and I can read the text.

In terms of power I need help with that. My plan to use a Gameboy AC adapter (have a bunch) works most of the time, but the backlight often causes it to abruptly turn off. I dont know if its the increase use in power or what because it has been on with backlight for about 3 hours and hasnt shut off… weird..
Anyways, in terms of power, you can use the 5volts with ground but you will probably need a bunch of resistors or a voltage regulator since palms are designed to run on 3volts or so.
I had hoped for a circuit that would have 2 power sources, 2xAA @ 3volts and the PC powersupply at 3.3volts. So it would switch to the PC powersupply when the computer is on, then go to the batteries when the pc is off. I gave up on that idea and used a cheapo ac adapter instead.

You can have it take some user input. It wont be like a scribble pad, but you can use the grafitti pad to input commands to your computer to say.. start winamp, next track, etc… fun stuff.

I hate my M100 for not having flash space >_<.

@ crummy:

there’s no “real” fullscreen mode – but you can change the font set PalmOrb uses to emulate the LCD. Just enter PalmOrbs menu by clicking on the upper left corner of your pda screen, choose “screen”, and then choose the font you’d like to use.

Is there a way to replace the palm OS on a Clie UX-50 and replace it with a Pocket PC OS?

FYI, you need the latest alpha, not 1.0 to go fullscreen. Thanks for the tip, jochen.

There’s another version on the PalmOrb site that lets you specify width/height, dbs. However you can only use LCDC (which allows custom width/height specification.) Havn’t tried the linux ones though.

How technical would this be to mount inside your case and hook up to one of the power connectors and a serial port? I have zero experience in this sort of thing. Is there something I could get to make this easier? I’m using a Palm Vx, by the way.

jordan: no hardware hacking required, unless you decide to add some kind of permanent power source.

I got this working on my old m125. It drains batteries like crazy because I had it in my pocket during Hurricane Charley last year, so I replaced it with a Zire 31. Everything else about the m125 is fine, it just goes through batteries really quickly.

Someone asked about molex connectors for power. I wouldn’t risk it, molex has 12v and 5v. There are 3.3V leads on an ATX power supply if you want to tap that, that may be a little more reasonable. I wouldn’t guarentee it. While running, my palm seems to pull about 2.85V.

specs: running LCDproc under linux 2.6, with clients lcdproc, trafficpl and the weather one.

What other good clients have people found for this?

thanks for the help. i finally got my palm running attached to an old atx power supply. if this program was any good i would do more work and make it all nice lookings, but i’ll stick to my parallel port lcd screen. it’s only 2 lines, but it’s better than this in my mind.

snigma, there’s a winamp plug-in for LCDSmartie.
http://lcdsmartie.sourceforge.net/winampplugin.html

follow the instruction steps – it works fine. and don’t forget to setup the visualization plug-in to auto-execute mode in winamp prefs (in general plug-ins tab).

regardz,

j0xXx3n

I have a mac, a palm pda, and a usb cradle. Has anybody been able to get this configuration to work?

The palmorb software runs on the pda. But I can’t get my mac to send data to it over the usb wire to the pda.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I even tried to just do “echo ‘test’ > /dev/tty0″ but I don’t know which tty to use for the usb.

Any ideas for what to do w/ an old palm that has a broken screen? :)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v222/shakeys/Image32.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v222/shakeys/Image36.jpg
heres the mod i maade the 1st time i learned about this program from bit-tech!
it just wasnt on yet coz i havent made the circuit board for the palm to be self charging. it was about a month ago so its ok now!

Do you have any support for this peogram i am having trouble getting it to detect my palm m100

has anyone figured out how to open a m105 or any palm? My palm has these wierd screws that look like they are riveted or something.

i have those same scrwes on mine i smashed it open make sure you smash at the part with no buttons and dont smash hard :)

i have an old treo300 (sprint’s old pda phone). i’m looking to go a step up on it. i broke the usb connector off the board (whoops!) so i dismantled it and pulled the screen out.

i want to figure out how to soldier leads on to the connector on it to turn it into a screen *without* having to use the rest of the pda. is this possible? any hints/clues?

I’m running on a palmIIIc using LCD smartie and and the other palmorb version which gives you a 8X20 display and pretends it’s a 4X40. There is also a plugin from someone called limbo which allows you to scroll part of a line instead of the whole thing which is needed so the because LCD smartie will scroll a two lines instead of one. I can’t remember what the site was but i found it while browsing around on the LCD smartie website.

http://www.styletap.com/
sorry forgot link

i have a sony clie peg-sj22 and i cant get this to work..but, i’ve been trying to find a way to use my sony clie as another monitor.

Theres a mod out there but its for pc pilots with windows mobile running on them..
if anyone can think of any cool hack/mods to get my palm pilot in use as another monitor, it would be highly appriciated

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I need data from the LCD Palm Zire, let me reuse the LCD in a draft ECG
Would need the connector and data communication protocol or some data as minimum to start a crawl.
Atte
Ricardo

I’d like to connect my palm zire 31 motherboard to a 12″ touchscreen. Can anyone advise how this can be done?

This has a lot of potential. Does anyone know where to find the old PalmOS SDK (for Windows and/or Linux)?