Palm Portable Keyboard Bluetooth Adapter

I have an early release version of this keyboard that I used to do a lot of relatively distraction-free writing on my Palm V back in the day. The keyboard was very well made and got lots of admiring looks whenever I popped it open. It would be great to have an off-the-shelf bluetooth adapter for it! Kudos to pymo for a neat and useful DIY implementation.

I used a Palm m-series with one of these keyboards while in high school, in order to type while on the school bus. I wish I still had it to test this out!

This was a great keyboard. I wrote most of the content for my first web site sitting on the roof of my building with one of these and a U.S. Robotics Palm III.

The only problem was that I could type way faster than the PDA could keep up. I guess hooking it up to something modern via Bluetooth removes that limitation.

Of note, for a while a Chinese OEM was selling a copy of the Palm Portable Keyboard with bluetooth. (Main irritant: they used USB charging but put a very non-standard socket on the keyboard end -- it resembles a 4-pin firewire cable, only not quite -- which put a stop to me using mine.)

FYI Palm had original bluetooth keyboards support, and long before smartphones ever existed.

I have one of the Palm V keyboards, and recently bought a $20 Bluetooth keyboard for my iPad, but am considering spending the time building one of these because it's such a nice hack. Bookmarked.

I did a similar thing with the esp, which would fit inside the keyboard when folded. Of course the battery still wouldn't fit.

Omg how useful this is!