hi all -- we've had reports from the XO-1 deployments in haiti of a technique that kids are using to make their touchpads more reliable. since it's notoriously hard to recreate field conditions here in the rarified environment of the OLPC world headquarters corporate penthouse suite [1], i'm wondering if folks on this list might give this trick a try, and see if you think it's an improvement.
there's no rush on this -- try it, give it a while, and report back. the thing the kids are doing is simply covering the touchpad with... scotch tape. really. just that. so the thing to try is that, or maybe a sticker, or maybe even a Post-it note of the right size, affixed on top of the active area of the touchpad. (there's some basis for this having an affect, in that increasing the gap between one's finger and the touchpad will change the capacitive coupling between the two.) i'm told the kids are using the glossy kind of tape, but i don't know if that's due to preference, or availability. please give it a try, and let us know your impressions. paul [1] just kidding about the "rarified" and "penthouse" parts. but the touchpad do, unfortunately, work reasonably well in our typically climate-controlled office. =--------------------- paul fox, p...@laptop.org _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel