Stylus Recommendation

[steve]

haha. this will make you laugh.

Like this in miniature mounted vertically on the back panel. backwoods geek!

http://www.rodmounts.com/

 
 

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[mailto:community-bounces at lists.openmoko.org] On Behalf Of Michael Shiloh
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 3:03 PM
To: List for Openmoko community discussion
Subject: Re: Stylus Recommendation

How about a stylus holder for the rear window of your pickup truck?

steve wrote:
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> I'm goingto fashion a vertically mounted gun rack type holder on my back 
> panel.
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> Have you used emachine shop?
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> * From: * community-bounces at lists.openmoko.org 
> [mailto:community-bounces at lists.openmoko.org] *On Behalf Of *Crane,
Matthew
> *Sent:* Monday, May 05, 2008 7:04 AM
> *To:* List for Openmoko community discussion
> *Subject:* RE: Stylus Recommendation
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> Sounds like a good candidate for emachnie shop.  But how tightly can 
> something like that be locked to the side of the phone?  A usb connector 
> by itself is probally not suffecient no?
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> * From: * community-bounces at lists.openmoko.org 
> [mailto:community-bounces at lists.openmoko.org] *On Behalf Of *Steven
Milburn
> *Sent:* Monday, May 05, 2008 9:06 AM
> *To:* community at lists.openmoko.org
> *Subject:* Re: Stylus Recommendation
> 
> Just had a crazy thought while reading this thread....
> 
> Someone (read: not me.  I AM a EE :) ) could make a stylus with a usb 
> connector sticking out along the side.  Then, the stylus could plug into 
> the usb port and be held tight against the side of the phone.
> 
> On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 8:33 PM, Jeremiah Flerchinger 
> <jeremiah.flerchinger at gmail.com <mailto:jeremiah.flerchinger at gmail.com>> 
> wrote:
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> I'd like a Nintendo DS style stylus and holder because they're small,
> cheap, & I like how they fit into the casing of the DS.  ?I would try to
> use the FreeRunner CAD data
> ( http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Neo_FreeRunner_GTA02_Hardware#Case ) to
> make my own case mod design ?if I could find something to convert Pro-E
> files.  As it stands I refuse to buy Pro-E for a single hobby project.
> 
> 
> On Sat, 2008-05-03 at 09:12 +0200, Nicanor Babula wrote:
>>  Shawn Rutledge wrote:
>>  > On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 7:56 AM, Hans L <thehans at gmail.com 
> <mailto:thehans at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>  >
>>  >>  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
>>  >>
>>  >
>>  > Well you could take apart the phone and try to find a place to stash a
>>  > small, really strong neodymium magnet.  Then use a thin steel stylus
>>  > (with a soft plastic tip), shaped to fit against whatever surface has
>>  > the magnet.  It could even fit against the side of the phone, if it
>>  > had a slightly concave shape.  Or mod the case to have a shallow
>>  > groove for the stylus to fit into, then the stylus could just be a
>>  > thin steel bar, or rounded on one side as suggested.  Since the magnet
>>  > doesn't move, it shouldn't cause any inductive pulses (although it
>>  > might cause electrons that are trying to move in a straight line to go
>>  > off in a curve instead.  Not sure if that would affect anything...)
>>  >
>>  >
>>  >
>>
>>  Now I am using a motorola A1200E "Motoming" (linux based ;) ) and it has
>>  a stylus too. I like very much the way the stylus is attached to my
>>  motorola and I would like to see it on the neo if it doesn't create
>>  large additional costs.
>>
>>  Check it out:
>>  http://direct.motorola.com/hellomoto/motomingedge/
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