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. 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.
Bye, -Dylan McCall On 7/1/07, Robin Paulson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
well, i'm definitely interested in someone doing something like this - and my background is in CAD/engineering/materials with a bit of CAM, so i might as well start things off. i can't see any schematics/CAD drawings up on the wiki - can someone point me in the direction of accurate, precise drawings of the internals and the case? if not, then to sean: will FIC be releasing good engineering drawings of the component(s) or will we be going down the route of measuring hardware and drawing our own? if we are going the reverse-engineering route, is someone willing to whip out their micrometer and a decent (open-source) CAD package and make some up for us? On 7/2/07, Jeff Andros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 7/1/07, Robin Paulson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > <snip> > > want a case made from brass with diamonds inset, and a 200mm joystick > > - go for for it. > > <snip> > The real question is, how long before we see a really good steampunk case? > anyone out there want to show off your 3D Cam skills and start putting them > up for sale... I'd buy ( rapidobject.com was previously mentioned if you > need a place to do the work) > > -- > Jeff > O|||||||O _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
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