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Articles Tagged "bluetooth":
Going Newton ¬
2010-01-01
Two weeks ago I commented that, “Sometimes I wonder just how ‘Newton’ I could go. Clear off my desk and leave only an eMate and Color StyleWriter 2200? Would love it.” Shortly there after I discovered that RetroChallenge would be kicking off their 2010 Winter Warm-Up at the start of January. How could I resist bringing a little extra green (I’d assume there will already be many a glow from green monochrome CRTs) to the challenge?
While I’m desperately trying not to start new projects, one of the tasks I’ve been attempting during my few hours at home has been to clear off my desk. It had become a dumping ground for paid bills, receipts, gadgets and anything else without a specific home. At one point the pile actually reached the ceiling. Working in a few eMate repairs and a bit of writing during the month of January should not only be feasible, but could actually feel quite productive. Needless to say, little extra encouragement was needed for me to submit an entry.
The challenge is very open-ended, so I was content with setting a reasonable goal of repairing & updating an eMate 300 as a clean & simple environment for focused writing. It needs the hinge repaired, battery recelled, 2010 patch applied, and a few other issues addressed, so there’ll be more involved than merely clearing away desk detritus. If I manage all that with time to spare, then I’ll venture to craft a working modem script which allows me to get online with AT&T EDGE/GPRS via Bluetooth, but I’m not counting on it.
To be honest, it feels a bit deceitful to submit a Newton entry as I’m a daily user and a bit of a power user. Hell, my MessagePad 2100 travels with me everywhere and is already patched for 2010, has CompactFlash memory, BlueTooth, and WiFi. The eMate, however, has just been collecting dust in the strata on my desk, so I doubt I’ll get much push back for revitalizing it.
With less than an hour to go before the start of the challenge in my time zone, I’m very much looking forward to a clean, minimal, and usable Newton desk at the end of the month.
State of the Newton Addendum ¬
2008-02-28
After posting yesterday morning’s State of the Newton in 10 Years Ago Today, I asked my fellow NewtonTalk members if there was anything glaringly obvious that I had missed. It was pointed out that I had somehow completely missed all the hardware folks.
BT-001 Bluetooth Module
Let me begin a new-ish development.
Approximately twenty days ago I approached Jake Bordens regarding his cancelled BT-001 project to create an internal Bluetooth module for the MessagePad 2100. He had ceased further development due to issues with the antenna design only being able to sustain mediocre/poor signal ranges with the Newton’s case off and failing completely when reassembled.
He was very open to letting others use and improve his design and offered to open source it. So, on February 8th, he released the Eagle PCB files under an MIT license and they can be found on his BT-001 page.
I have yet to test these files and am not likely to be building any PCBs myself, but hopefully this will give other bright Newton hardware people a head start in completing a built-in Bluetooth module.
The Hardware Guys (and Gals)
As a segue from the BT-001, Adriano Angelilis sells Pico Card Bluetooth cards (of which I’ve purchased one) as well as his own custom hardware on his Notwen site. He has numerous creations, including: a USB charging cable, PlainTalk and Bluetooth audio adapters, an serial-powered LED light, an iPod connection cable, and a USB dongle ; all of which are still fabricated one at a time.
Although quite controversial amongst the NewtonTalk members due to his propensity to reverse engineer for initial designs and what some feel are exuberant prices, KnowledgeNavigator of Newton Sales is at least keeping the hardware modifications available, including: an internal serial module, replacement backlights, and speed boost implants. More recently he has been working on a USB Dock Prototype based on the FreeDock.
The guys aren’t the only ones having fun with hardware. Although Stephanie Maksylewich discontinued her Newton use in 2005, she had a number of hardware hacks including homebrew overclocking instructions for the MessagePad 2100 and eMate 300. Definitely not for the feint hearted.
How Many Words Again?
Others yet are helping to preserve the Newton not only with soldering iron in hand, but camera as well. Sonny Hung is one of those who’s flickr photosets include everything from the tools that [he uses] when repairing Newtons, to Newton-related brochures, posters & ads, and magazine covers, to clear case models, EVTs & DVTs, and even the final MessagePad 2000 blueprints.
There’s a lot more there than I can even list here, but you get the picture (pun fully intended): he’s a veritable Newton archeologist.
En Route To Santa Clara ¬
2006-10-14
I’m currently sitting in JFK on my six hour layover between Burlington, VT, and Santa Clara, CA en route to Apple Channel Camp and then Rack ‘n Roll.
Six long hours that Jimmy and I could have spent trekking to the 5th Avenue Apple Store (maybe even with the red Apple still hanging in it.) Unfortunately, we sat around for a while before we remembered we could go visit Apple retail stores (hey, we work for an Apple Specialist, so sue us!) but we’d be cutting it too close (if we could even pull it off at all) at this point.
We’re flying JetBlue and had a good flight down from BTV, but JetBlue’s free wireless hotspots suck! Jimmy was able to get his MacBook connected for nearly an hour, but I’ve yet to get my MacBook Pro to connect (and actually get on the web) so have been using my Verizon Wireless V710 via BlueTooth (thankfully it’s a weekend!)
I don’t know what to think of the impending six hour flight, the jet lag, and the fact that we’re probably not going to have time to sleep tonight before getting up for a 9am course.
I will likely be under NDA for atleast Rack ‘n Roll, possibly Channel Camp as well, so I doubt I’ll post any updates on those, but I’ll try to post regularly regarding the trip in general.
Thanks to a post by Giulio on the NewtonTalk mailing list, my Newton MessagePad 2100 with Blunt and a Pico Card is entirely stable. Transferring notes from the Newton to my MacBook Pro has been extremely fast and very reliable (although you can only send one note at a time).
The solution: Freeze SysPatch 0.6b.
Either I, or somebody else on the list, will investigate to see if it’s any of SysPatch’s particular features that causes the restarts or if the package is just incompatible.
Happiness. :D
Newton BlueTooth Progress Report ¬
2006-04-13
I don’t receive packages from overseas very often, so I’m not as good at estimating shipping times as well as Adriano obviously is… my Pico Card arrived today. I don’t think the timing could have been any better! (Is it odd that the first thing that comes to mind to say is, “Happy, happy, joy, joy!”? Ren & Stimpy has stained my generation.)
Following the BlueTooth setup instructions over at WikiWikiNewt, at Adriano’s suggestion (plus it’s just a really good resource for most things Newton), I was quickly on my way to having BlueTooth configured on my Newton. However, before I do my quick explanation of how it went, let me just say these two things: this is the buggiest thing I’ve ever tried to do with my Newton MessagePad 2100; and Escale (part of DCL) works just fine on the Intel Macs (this tested it on my MacBook Pro).
After downloading and installing1 Blunt and the prerequisite packages, I started trying to configure it. Configuration is pretty straightforward, but I experienced a few crashes here and there (some to my not paying attention to which was the English and which was the German package, but others related to trying to “Get Services”). I’m not talking hard freezes, I’m talking spontaneous reboots.
Discovering, pairing, getting services, and sending files via BlueTooth OBEX is all pretty straight forward both on the Newton OS side and the Mac OS X side, but my success rate is about 0.75 notes sent per reboot. Basically, I can send one to two notes before my Newton reboots during one BlueTooth process or another. Unfortunately, the reason that the ratio is less than one at this point is that it often needs me to “Get Services” again, which has about a 50-50 chance of a reboot. :\
Buggiest thing I’ve ever done on my Newton? Yes, unfortunately, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t successful. The notes I’ve been able to transfer are ones I’ve been unable to transfer via Mail V (too large?) or even sync with nSync. With that in mind, I’d definitely say this has been successful.
Also worth noting, I may try to keep my Newton’s internal storage clean (and I do have about 720K free, even with all my packages), but I don’t know how free my heap is, nor how fragmented my internal storage is (it’s been a long time since I did a backup, brain wipe, and restore). It’s likely that I need to do a little more spring cleanup on my Newton or freeze some packages at startup to make BlueTooth more reliable.
Ignoring that fact for now, Eckhart has been working on Blunt 2 for quite some time (see his blog), so hopefully he’ll have an update out sometime this year. Blunt 2 is a complete redesign and should prove to be immensely more stable than its predecessor, so I have high hopes for it when it’s released.
I won’t be giving up on BlueTooth on my MP 2100 anytime soon, this looks like it’ll be quite an interesting adventure.
1 In my haste, I missed the fact that I couldn’t use the latest Blunt (0.7.7) with the Pico Card and had to use 0.7.6 and so had to endure re-downloading and re-installing a couple packages. Only lost a little time to troubleshooting that one.
