PDA Robots

I was looking at my old Palm III PDA and thinking just how handy it was in it’s day. I still think the handwriting recognition on it was the best.
I was thinking that something so useful shouldn’t be stuck in a box somewhere to be forgotten, it should be hacked and mangled until it can do something else! 🙂
I found this book, “The Ultimate Palm Robot“. Looks like to might have some useful info on how to interface hardware on to the Palm platform. Looks like it uses the Palm Pilot Robot Kit as the base for the projects. The holonomic drive system will turn just about any head. You can read a nice review of it here at the Gadgeteer. If your up for spending $300US on your little ‘bot your doing better than me!
For $85US there is the SVX 203C Robotic development system, but it looks like they might not be sold any more.

Finally, there is this clever little paper manipulating robot that uses a Palm III as it’s brain.
So it looks like if you do have an old Palm PDA you can still get some action out of it in the form of a robot.