Palm V and Basic Stamp Interface

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Fellow Stampers,

Sometime back Tracy Allen, Al Williams and the group gave me advise on
interfacing a Palm to a Stamp.

I connected my Palm Vx to a terminal program and was able to
communicate

Used a gender changer on the hot sync cable

Next I ventured to write a small program in PocketC and was able to
toggle an LED in the Stamp and send a message back to the Palm of mission
accomplished
The possibilities are endless now. With Palm prices so low it can compete
with LCD's and you get a touch screen and a lot more

Now would like to probably use an IR interface from Rentron and try to
communicate throught the IR of the Palm as well as build a fancy user
interface


Will keep everyone informed of my attempts

The ultimate dream is to run an industrial machine/robot with a Palm
and a Stamp

Dan


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Archiver

Just keep in mind sending and receiving PC I/R stuff is not quite the same
as the remote control IR. Something about the pulse length being shortened,
if I remember right (I think it was mentioned in a recent a Nuts & Volts
article). I think the article mentioned some sort of chip that did the
interfacing / translating for you.

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> Sometime back Tracy Allen, Al Williams and the group gave me advise
on
> interfacing a Palm to a Stamp.
>
> I connected my Palm Vx to a terminal program and was able to
> communicate
>
> Used a gender changer on the hot sync cable
>
> Next I ventured to write a small program in PocketC and was able to
> toggle an LED in the Stamp and send a message back to the Palm of mission
> accomplished
> The possibilities are endless now. With Palm prices so low it can compete
> with LCD's and you get a touch screen and a lot more
>
> Now would like to probably use an IR interface from Rentron and try
to
> communicate throught the IR of the Palm as well as build a fancy user
> interface