Pabilo Project

The Pabilo project started in 2001 when I found a Palm application to use your Palm handheld as a bicycle speedo meter. I had some great ideas for improvements but there was no source code available and to have it fully functional you needed to by a licence as well.

That did it.......a simple but interesting piece of software that had to cost money and came with NO source code made me decide to build an implementation myself. And it was easy to build using the Palm OS api. In a few days I had a functional speedo meter for my Palm. I called it PAlmBIkeLOgger or PABILO
The name Pabilo actualy means something. In Filipino it means velocity or accelleration.

But it had a limitation of 64 km/h because of the event handler and the maximum of 100 timer ticks per second. So I started using the AT2313 micro controller to do the measurement and send the timer value using the serial port to the Palm device that with some calculations came up with the speed and the distance.
Then I added logging in a Palm database. And even had a version with (very limited) icon navigation.

Shortly I will have a version available where no extra harware is needed. The speedo hardware can give extra functionality but for now only holds people back trying an using pabilo. So in a few weeks you can use pabilo with just a wheel sensor on pins 8 and 3 of you hotsync-cable.

When you can write a program to read the pdb files that come from pabilo after a hotsync please help building a tool to create csv file from the pdb files.

The latest version is now PabiloIII version 1.0 (this manual is not updated).

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