Portable Digital Assistants

Xybernaut Poma test

TI Calcuators

• http://sourceforge.net/projects/virtualti/ Virtual TI - Virtual TI emulates nearly the entire line of Texas Instruments graphing calculators, and offers features that speed up both debugging and testing of calculator programs. Windows version is quite stable but the Linux version is only in planning.

Dauphin DTR-1: search at ebay

• http://www.eskimo.com/~toby/dtr1/docs/dtr1faq.html FAQ;
• http://www.eskimo.com/~toby/dauphin/docs/linux.html DTR-1 & Linux;
• http://www.surplustech.com/notelaps.htm has parts, but no DTR-1's now.

Toshiba T100X: search at ebay

• http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Vista/4927/t100x_bigs.html, Tech Corner for the T-100X;  etc. etc.

MonoRail

Grid

Palm Pilot

• www.pcnet.com/~desrosi/pilothdw.html
• http://www.kt.rim.or.jp/~suu/PalmRobo/PiloRobo_e.shtml
• http://www.palm.com/devzone/hw.html
• http://www.vermontlife.com/gary/pilothdw.html
• http://www.cs.tu-bs.de/~harbaum/pilot/ has C and other programming language resources at the bottom.
• http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/palmhardware/ has the serial cable wiring diagrams etc.
• http://www.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/~harbaum/pilot/adxl202.html interfaces an adxl202 to a Palm
• http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/new/ should help on getting started doing Palm Software
• http://www.pstec.de/ppp/ has a lot of misc. Palm information and goodies.
• http://www.geocities.com/daveinfopage/palmpilot_freeISP.html (that's about hooking to free ISP's off the palm)
• http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/docs/devguide/TableOfContents.htm
• http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/tools/gcc/
• http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/tools/emulator/
• http://www.wademan.com/Pilot/Program/FAQ.htm

http://www.handspring.com

• Serial Interface
  • http://wac.addr.com/ee/visor/visor.html Micro power RS232 cable.
  • http://www.pocketaprs.com/visor.html Visor to RS232 background
  • http://www.dataget.com/dataget_rs232_specsheet.pdf True hardware handshaking RS232 via a springboard module. $299

• Spring board http://www.handspring.com/developers/step1.jhtml
  • http://www.xilinx.com/apps/epld.htm Appnotes for PDA development includeing
    • XAPP149: Designing an Oscilloscope with the Insight Springboard Kit
    • XAPP146: Designing an Eight Channel Digital Volt Meter with the Insight Springboard Kit
    • XAPP147: Low Power Handspring Springboard Module Design with CoolRunner CPLDs

    Source for the Insight Springboard Kit

    • http://www.optimagic.com/boards.html $350

  • http://www.handspring.com/developers/palmosswtechres.jhtml Resources
  • http://www.pacificmicroinstruments.com/Longboard.htm getting to the signals and providing flash memory for the code in the springboard module.
  • http://www.handspring.com/developers/AN-01SpringboardModuleTesting_201.pdf Actual circuits (reference design) showing how to interface with the slot. Includes a UART, FLASH, IO, etc...
  • http://www.handspring.com/developers/AN-03DiagnosticReferenceModule_101.pdf more on the reference design.

Insite Handspring Development Kit with