Stylus Recommendation

[Nicanor Babula]

Steve,

I am very pleased to see that in fact the openmoko team is considering 
our ideas. I didn't want to offend in any way you or the team.

steve wrote:
> <pre wrap>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).
>
>
>  &gt; Kim Alvefur wrote:
> </pre><blockquote type=cite><pre wrap>On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 09:56 
> -0500, Hans L wrote:
>  
> </pre><blockquote type=cite><pre wrap>On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 9:01 AM, 
> Nicanor Babula &lt;deadhorus at gmail.com&gt;
> </pre></blockquote></blockquote><pre wrap><!---->wrote:
> </pre><blockquote type=cite><blockquote type=cite><pre wrap>    
> </pre><blockquote type=cite><pre wrap>   I don't think that a magnetic 
> stylus would be such a good idea,
> </pre></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><pre wrap><!---->because
> </pre><blockquote type=cite><blockquote type=cite><blockquote 
> type=cite><pre wrap>any movement of the pen would create a current 
> into every conductor
> </pre></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><pre wrap><!---->existing
> </pre><blockquote type=cite><blockquote type=cite><blockquote 
> type=cite><pre wrap>in its magnetic field (freerunner's circuits 
> included). This current
> </pre></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><pre wrap><!---->might
> </pre><blockquote type=cite><blockquote type=cite><blockquote 
> type=cite><pre wrap>damage or disturb the phone itself.
>       
> </pre></blockquote><pre wrap>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?
>     
> </pre></blockquote><pre wrap>
> The battery? AFAIK lots of phone holders have magnets that attach to the
> battery through the back.
>  
> </pre></blockquote><pre wrap><!---->
>
> _______________________________________________
> Openmoko community mailing list
> community at lists.openmoko.org
> http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
>
>
>
> </pre></body>
> </html>
> </html>