Kero's iPAQ Page

November 2000 I bought an iPAQ (Compaq H3630). It is a PDA with some impressive hardware, which allows one to hack on and play with it. As indicated on the handhelds site, you can remove PocketPC and put Linux (familiar or intimate distro) on it. That allows for much more control over the unit and opportunity to play with it.

Some of my little projects so far:

Power Management graphs and the fixed percentage in /proc/apm,
Implemented thermal sensor read-out,
Packaging of Ruby for linux on iPAQ, the familiar-distro. Ruby has it's own feed now,
Because I used Ruby/Tk, I also packaged Tcl and Tcl/Tk for linux on iPAQ.
Ruby Agenda using Ruby/Tk for iPAQ and other PDA's. The author used the agenda daily,
Wise, a toolkit for Ruby, based on very low-level Graphical Libraries (like X for UNIX),
A pim-suite in Ruby, using Ruby-Wise for iPAQ and other PDA's. The agenda has to be ported from Ruby/Tk.
A set of small (dockable) apps for Ruby with WiSe. Aimed specifically at the familiar-distro, a menu and some apps dock perfectly into ion and matchbox,
Ruby bindings for termios, because I wanted Ruby to take over the chat functionality for tty's.
Kaffe for X (25 Jan 2002, for kernel with FPU emulation). Some shoared lib problems, can't use compressed jar-files for some reason. On iPAQ, jffs2 will compress anyway, so you can unzip the jar-files. Clumsy work-around.
2004, kaffe was resurrected, succesfully got 1.1.3 and 1.1.4 running, easy to cross-compile now. current CVS is too slow and has other problems. Too bad, now that awt seems to be maturing.

All of the projects are available from my familiar feed. Actually, nearly all of them, except the /proc/apm fix, but that's most likely in your kernel alread, together with a thermal sensor read-out :)

Screenshots and Photos

For a start, look at these Ruby Agenda screenshots.

Then there is the address book, which is only a viewer for the moment.

I have two simple shots of WiSe, one with iPAQ-applets.

Then I have two shots from JVPC running on Kaffe (on X) [and since I can dial into an ISP from my iPAQ via IrDA/mobile phone, in theory I can do my VGA-Planets turns on the road :]

The Starmap, showing a selected planet. The String does not fit on the label on the bottom of the map, though... The planet itself, in editable form. I am setting the Friendly Code to ATT with xstroke. Nearly everything fits on the screen properly.

Kero


The Starmap, showing a selected planet. The String does not fit on the label on the bottom of the map, though...	The planet itself, in editable form. I am setting the Friendly Code to ATT with xstroke. Nearly everything fits on the screen properly.