I have an old HP95LX palmtop, and it's got the dreaded "screen
blanking" problem. Well, I've found a similar LCD in BGMicro's
ad, and I'll be trying to interface it to the unit...it'd be nice if I
could
get it working again, consistently. It's cheap enough to toss, if
I can't get the new LCD interfaced.
First off, does anyone know if there's a fix for the display? MIT
guys? It's a Hitachi LCD sandwich...all surface mount with a
HUGE number of parallel traces -- the blanking problem acts
like a broken trace or cold solder joint. Anyone?
Or, perhaps, does anyone have a broken old 95LX, with a working
screen? Something I could scavenge from?
Anyway, down to business. I want to build my first wearable, and
I have my old 95LX as a donor. It's an XT compliant DOS "laptop"
with a motherboard smaller than a PC Card, and which runs on 2
AA batteries. It also provides both wired and wireless serial I/O.
The keyboard, built into the case, is probably a matrix which I could
"reengineer" with a little work. Its "connector" is a linear series of
"pads" which align when the case is closed. Shouldn't be too hard to
work up a solution. The stock keyboard is standard QWERTY,
but a bit bulky for a wearable solution, but small enough to be
difficult to touch type on.
While it's a limited system, it also has a suite of built in apps which
work quite well on its hardware, and which export standard formats.
Has anyone made a wearable out of one of these? It could literally
be pager sized if done right, with only a few external peripherals like
a keyboard and a display.
-- Chuck Knight
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