Getting a good clean signal over the serial port was really important. After a fair bit of use of the acrylic laser cut connect, it was found that it constituted too much trial and error in manually making the connection. So the idea to actually modify the Palm serial port into a connector started to take root. The key idea is to look for a space on the Palm, solder the connector and have that connected permanently on the Palm, so that when required, an add-on board can be used to expand the capability of the unit, instead of mucking around with the 10-pin port.