As the baseball season draws to a close, I’ve been thinking about what to do with my free time following the World Series. From April through early November, a lot of my time is occupied by baseball. Watching it, reading about it, etc.
Over the past few years, I developed an interest in recycling older tech for a more useful future than landfill. Most of these efforts have centered around Open Source, Linux, and older computers. I’ve rejuvenated several ten year old computers. These projects often occupied that time. But now I’m ready to up the ante.
My old Palm Vx, while still in fine running condition, has outlived it’s present usefulness. Linux can run on such small devices, and so my offseason project is to not only covert the Palm to Linux but make the pda into a functioning e-reader. While I realize it will never match the Kindle or the Sony e-reader, I should be able (in theory) to re-purpose the Palm Vx into an adequate reader. Far better than just tossing it the scrap heap.
While I haven’t found a record of anyone actually accomplishing such a conversion (if anyone knows of someone who has, please let me know. I’m not above help), I figure it’ll be fun trying.
I’ll start in on the project the week after the World Series ends. I’ll write periodic posts updating my progress.
