Alphasmart Dana Software Downloads

I am tempted. I have a little experience with this in a school setting, but not from a technical rip-one-open-and-resuse perspective. The thing is, it's rumoured to be able to run embedded Linux and it does have RS232 serial communications, a full keyboard and small LCD display, as well as battery. Even 'as is' they make nice little typing tutors for kids, but it does have a data transfer function and I think it can also act as a serial terminal. This thing BEGS to be married to Arduino. They are available used all over the place, school systems used them extensively until 'real' computers entered the classroom. They can be bought cheap, are tougher than rocks, and seem too good to be true as even a serial terminal for I/O to projects.

Find helpful customer reviews and review ratings for AlphaSmart Dana. You can't add drivers to the Dana, so you're stuck unable to print formatted text directly. This page contains information about installing the latest AlphaSmart driver downloads using the AlphaSmart Driver Update Tool. AlphaSmart drivers are tiny programs that enable your AlphaSmart hardware to communicate with your operating system software.

You could even piggyback on the internal battery for Arduino power. If this can act as a basic serial terminal, it's more than worth it's price! Thoughts or experiences? What exactly DON'T you have ferreted away?

No wonder you took up swordfighting, it'd be the only way you could keep the spouse at bay. I'd say you need a warehouse, but you already went and got one of those, and then decided to put the SWORDS in it, not the toys. Think about that. You are now totally defenseless. There's probably a fencing term for it, and you're in it! At least keep a dagger near the 'parts bins' to let her know you still mean business. Actually I think the Dana things ARE the newer version of this device.

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'AlphaSmart 3000 Dana', yes? Looks like they sell for about $50, and actually are touchscreen, pretty much Palm devices. A lot different than previous models. The thing is, if it doesn't have a usable interface like RS232, it won't be of much help in an Arduino context.

I'm hoping that these could be used as serial 'dumb terminals', and I'll bet having all the good new stuff precluded the good old serial port which we would be wanting. Those things even have wireless apparently. Still, a simple serial terminal is a good place to start. And maybe even end up.

For Arduino, the most useful thing would be a simple serial terminal with TTL levels. It almost might be better to have the 'oldest' ones that around, as our interfacing tends to be on the lowest level possible. And, I just looked up what that 'Audrey' Jobbie is. That's a cute as heck little device.

To be clear, I'm sure we could reverse engineer the guts of one of the mini-laptops etc. I was kinda hoping for a turnkey 'terminal'. You let me know when you are going to have a yard sale, okay? I used to work at AlphaSmart on the Danas and Neos. I worked on the teacher software for downloading/uploading data to 30 of them at a time using the special cart and a big USB hub.

If you have any particular questions on them I can probably get an answer. AlphaSmart was purchased by Renaissance Learning back in 2005? Which is when I left, after the stock options were actually worth something. I think the last person I knew working there has just recently left but I'm still in touch with the founders and the rest of the engineering team so we might be able to help if you decide to hack one apart. For Dana's download the latest version of AlphaSmart Manager from here There are also links for the other models that are still supported. With the manager software you should get the drivers needed to talk to the devices over USB.

There are also some firmware upgrades there too but I haven't looked into those. I don't have any hardware to test on, the only thing I kept was an old keyboard from one.

The Palm varients are annoying as they really are all PalmOS and no simple serial or USB. You have to get the old Palm tools (Metrowerks or gcc) if you want to write software for them.

I'm not sure they were ever upgraded to the newer versions of PalmOS. If you get some old Neos or AS3000s those are pretty nifty and you can use the Get Utility and AlphaBeam to send data back and forth. Well, that's a project for another time. My wife (network engineer, with 3Com (that owned Palm)) spent a bunch of time lst fall getting all the latest stuff on it, and we each had several Palms before that, so we're quite familiar with them, and in fact would still be using our Palm Vs if the battery charge control chip hadn't died in them. Had to put stuff on SD card, then print from another computer. Really wanted them (we have 2) to print to this nice portable Pentax PocketJet II (1 pound thermal printer, really nice), but just couldn't get there.