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    Window CE Support for the Mindstorm Unit
   As an interesting turn of fate, I was given the chance to get a HP Jornada 430se or a Handspring Visor. I know there is support for Palm OS, but what about CE? I really haven't messed with a CE device and not sure if I am "allowed" to get the (...) (25 years ago, 19-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
   
        Re: Window CE Support for the Mindstorm Unit —peter renshaw
     (...) coming in at 514Kb I'd be interested to see if you could. (...) but you miss out on the apps currently running on the palm os. Does the Sun Kvm (java, jini) run on WinCE? (25 years ago, 19-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
   
        Re: Window CE Support for the Mindstorm Unit —David Kadansky
     I don't know for sure, but I have doubts that spirit.ocx will run in the Jornada, since the Journada contains a Hitachi processor, while spirit.ocx runs on Intel x86. (...) (25 years ago, 19-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
   
        Re: Window CE Support for the Mindstorm Unit —Erik Steffl
      I'd say that the pbForth is natural choice in this case, you just need the firmware downloader and terminal emulator (working over the serial port) erik (...) (25 years ago, 19-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
   
        Re: Window CE Support for the Mindstorm Unit —Graham Stalker-Wilde
     (...) COM components are processor specific, so no, spirit.ocx won't work. I have the Jornada 680 - the H/PC version - and it's a fantastic machine with an excellent screen, but there are limitations. One of the most frustrating things is that the (...) (25 years ago, 19-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
    
         RE: Window CE Support for the Mindstorm Unit —Ralph Hempel
     (...) Ha, got another one! Do you want to be on the update list? (...) While you are drinking some crazy new "vita brevis" beer, the rest of us are short of time ;-) Cheers, Ralph Hempel - P.Eng ---...--- Check out pbFORTH for LEGO Mindstorms at: (...) (25 years ago, 19-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
   
        Re: Window CE Support for the Mindstorm Unit —Joel Shafer
     (...) rajackson@qnx.com once suggested this solution: "Since IRDA can operate as a simple serial device. It would be simple to build a IRDA to RS-232 converter (it will need a IR led and Photo diode and some level shifters). The you could plug the (...) (25 years ago, 19-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
   
        Re: Window CE Support for the Mindstorm Unit —Sebi Huehn
   (...) I have found a new website: (URL) offer a program for windows ce, which can control Mindstorms and Cybermaster. (23 years ago, 30-Jul-01, to lugnet.robotics)
   
        Re: Window CE Support for the Mindstorm Unit —Juergen Stuber
   (...) Why don't you tell us that you wrote it? Jürgen (23 years ago, 30-Jul-01, to lugnet.robotics)
 

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