The keyboard is incredible. I can write down stuff in meetings without looking at it. Indeed: I've started to use M102 in the office. Still occasionally, but the usage is increasing.
For text file transfer to Windows and back, I'm using PuTTY and a serial USB adapter. > Well, for me, the killer features of the M100 are a) great keyboard, and b) > runs forever on a set of AAs. Obviously, add ons don't affect the keyboard, > but anything that perturbed the things battery life wouldn't be worth it, > imho. > > On Nov 26, 2015 11:33 AM, "Hiraghm" <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm still working on getting my Android devices to talk to my M100 via the > BlueM module. > They talk, but I'm working on creating a service and a broadcaster which > would allow one to use the M100 as a keyboard for the Android device. > > I want to learn to implement the TPDD protocol, but it doesn't look easy. > Once I do that, my ambition is still to be able to connect to your phone via > the BlueM and use it for storage w/o even taking the phone out of your pocket > (a variation on "cloud" computing...) > > I'm also hoping to allow Android devices to "share" their internet connection > with the M100 as a kind of filtering proxy. > I'd love to use my M100 for twitter messages (which are limited to 140 chars, > anyway). An idea I thought would be cool would be if, when viewing a tweet > with an attached image, the text would appear on the M100s screen, and the > image on the Android device's screen. Or a link would take you to a website > on the Android device while still reading/writing tweets on the M100. > > I've also got SMAUG MUD sitting on my desktop. I've been toying with the idea > of running a SMAUG-based MUD, maybe writing a custom mud client for the M100, > and maybe a graphical mud client for DOS/Win/Android/etc > Dunno if possible, but it'd be nice to be able to flow seamlessly from using > one device to using another. > The M100 client could even be semi-graphical, I think. > > I still wonder what could be done with the M100 via the expansion port. I > read somewhere recently that the expansion port allows for direct access to > memory. It made me wonder if someone clever could come up with a memory > management device (small, of course) plugged into the expansion port, > allowing it to semi-automatically bank-switch the memory in a Quad, > effectively expanding the "ram" of the M100 to 128k. Or, theoretically, using > a swap file system like DOS, have virtual ram as large as your storage > allows. I confess I've almost no technical expertise, so this could be a > laughable idea. To be backwards compatible, it'd have to be able to, on the > fly, change the absolute addressing into some kind of relative addressing and > back again. Of course, then, with DMA, it could serve not just as a MMU, but > math-coprocessor, GPU, etc, since almost any such device would be faster/more > powerful than the M100's 8085... > > It's interesting, I always thought the slow screen refresh would be the most > frustrating limitation on my M100, but I'm finding that it's the limited RAM > that's more frustrating. >
