Stylus Recommendation

[steve]

Nicanor,

We were all high school students, and not all of us were EE. So your opinion
counts, and yes I read it. I spent a good deal of time today fiddling with
different stylus ideas. ON one hand we do not want to burden the design (
The ID or the software ) with a requirement to use a stylus. On the other
hand, we cannot stop people from writing software that works better with a
stylus. So, How to balance these two. Some of the ideas on the list have
given me some thoughts. I'll share them with the Industrial design guys.
Good ideas can come from anywhere. From the High school student to old
guys who has done this for years. So, as an exercise, look through the list.
Collect the ideas. List there pros and cons. See what you come up with.
draw some pictures. If we had a monopoly on good ideas we would not be open
source.

Steve

And you just gave me a great idea!


-----Original Message-----
From: community-bounces at lists.openmoko.org
[mailto:community-bounces at lists.openmoko.org] On Behalf Of Nicanor Babula
Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 3:39 PM
To: List for Openmoko community discussion
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Stylus Recommendation

       I am not an electrical engineer either (I'm a highschool student) 
and I think that it's more important to get the phone ready than 
problems like "where the stylus will be attached?". In the end the 
freerunner will be a developer and not an end user phone. Besides I 
don't know how much the OpenMoko team is considering our suggestions (no 
offence).


 > Kim Alvefur wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 09:56 -0500, Hans L wrote:
>   
>> On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 9:01 AM, Nicanor Babula <deadhorus at gmail.com>
wrote:
>>     
>>>    I don't think that a magnetic stylus would be such a good idea,
because
>>> any movement of the pen would create a current into every conductor
existing
>>> in its magnetic field (freerunner's circuits included). This current
might
>>> damage or disturb the phone itself.
>>>       
>> I am not an electrical engineer, but I think that the voltage/current
>> produced from such a magnet would be negligible.  But, even assuming
>> that it would not be harmful, isn't the case made of plastic?  Is
>> there even enough ferrous material concentrated towards the back of
>> the neo to accomplish this?
>>     
>
> The battery? AFAIK lots of phone holders have magnets that attach to the
> battery through the back.
>   


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