[PKM] decided to breathe new life into a Psion 5mx handheld. He slapped linux on it, added a wikipedia dump to a CD card, and voila: pocket wikipedia. It’s the closest thing to an actual hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy I’ve ever seen. So long and thanks for all the fish!
Actually it’s not the closest thing to an actual hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy…
The Amazon Kindle allow you to freely and unlimitedly browse wikipedia. Unfortunately it works only in US (except in Alaska and mybe another state, can’t remember).
Take a look at amazon dot com slash kindle :-)
I could use one of those… I like the handheld unit. Looks like a fun little project for one of my old PDAs.
Posted at 12:13 pm on May 13th, 2008 by ArigornStrider
The letters for Don’t Panic are not friendly enough.
Posted at 1:36 pm on May 13th, 2008 by Roboarmy
You’d have to take that up with the creators of the TV show.
Posted at 3:05 pm on May 13th, 2008 by Mike
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From a non-existant Wikipedia Article on the above project:
“The repurposed Psion 5mx handheld Guide scores over the older, more pedestrian Amazon’s Kindle in two important respects. First, it is slightly cheaper; and second, it has the words “Don’t Panic” inscribed in large, friendly letters on its screen.”
Posted at 5:01 pm on May 13th, 2008 by Michael C. Reed
I did this about 4 years ago with a Zaurus C860 running Xfce on pdaXrom. I doctored up the cels from the Babelfish animation for the background. Where the orginal text was, I had torsmo display Artist and Title info from xmms so it read something like: “The Zaurus C860, while comparable in computational power to the Googleplex Starthinker, was mainly used to play bad music, such as %T by %A.” I customized some icons from the Monochrome KDE theme for the menubar/launcher, and it ended up looking pretty good. Xfce made it easy to implement a “DON’T PANIC” splashcreen.
Posted at 7:54 pm on May 13th, 2008 by NXK
Cool! I wrote about this some time ago, but on more modern hardware (Dell Axim X51v): http://johnbokma.com/mexit/2006/11/25/mobile-wikipedia.html
Posted at 12:57 pm on May 14th, 2008 by John Bokma
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haha that’s a kind of cute project!
Posted at 11:32 am on May 13th, 2008 by silic0re