Someone a while ago discussed plastic screen overlays. That seems the best way to offer optional buttons, although a problem does arise if one wants to press more than one button.<br>The other way is an expansion via bluetooth, or via one of the existing hard ports. My dream handheld would be a very basic and thin piece of hardware built to connect smoothly with a variety of devices via a big, centralized and fast hardware connector, accessing hardware available on those connected devices, offering a big screen and some kind of front-end OS... but that would be a pretty darn complicated endeavour for any time soon.
<br><br>Bye,<br>-Dylan McCall<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/1/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Robin Paulson</b> <<a href="mailto:robin.paulson@gmail.com">robin.paulson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
well, i'm definitely interested in someone doing something like this -<br>and my background is in CAD/engineering/materials with a bit of CAM,<br>so i might as well start things off.<br><br>i can't see any schematics/CAD drawings up on the wiki - can someone
<br>point me in the direction of accurate, precise drawings of the<br>internals and the case?<br><br>if not, then to sean:<br>will FIC be releasing good engineering drawings of the component(s) or<br>will we be going down the route of measuring hardware and drawing our
<br>own? if we are going the reverse-engineering route, is someone willing<br>to whip out their micrometer and a decent (open-source) CAD package<br>and make some up for us?<br><br>On 7/2/07, Jeff Andros <<a href="mailto:jeff@bigredtj.com">
jeff@bigredtj.com</a>> wrote:<br>><br>><br>> On 7/1/07, Robin Paulson <<a href="mailto:robin.paulson@gmail.com">robin.paulson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> > <snip><br>> > want a case made from brass with diamonds inset, and a 200mm joystick
<br>> > - go for for it.<br>> > <snip><br>> The real question is, how long before we see a really good steampunk case?<br>> anyone out there want to show off your 3D Cam skills and start putting them
<br>> up for sale... I'd buy ( <a href="http://rapidobject.com">rapidobject.com</a> was previously mentioned if you<br>> need a place to do the work)<br>><br>> --<br>> Jeff<br>> O|||||||O<br><br>_______________________________________________
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