Re: iphone-haptic

2008-03-03 Thread Robin Paulson
On 03/03/2008, Ortwin Regel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have doubts about the usefulness of vibrator feedback. It can't help you find a button or tell you whether you pressed the right one. All it does is tell you that you pressed a button at all. That might be a well, that mimics the

Re: iphone-haptic

2008-03-03 Thread Andy Green
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Somebody in the thread at some point said: I played with the motion sensors just eyeballing the raw data in hex and I think they're going to be very responsive and cool. Motion sensors? motion sensors are accelerometers...isn't it? how can

Re: iphone-haptic

2008-03-03 Thread Ortwin Regel
On 3/3/08, Gilbert Hartmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Does anyone know how this compares to the feedback on the Wii when using the keyboard? It sounds fairly similar (save for the Wii's lack of a touchscreen) - --Bert It should be similar but

Re: iphone-haptic

2008-03-03 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Andrea Debortoli ha scritto: It's an hard thing to tell if it could be useful or not...it's a totally new feature (I've never seen something similar), and I think we can evaluate it with practical test only. I've an old iFeel Logitech mouse with haptic support (vibrate on actions). Under

iphone-haptic

2008-03-02 Thread Andrea Debortoli
what about this?? http://code.google.com/p/iphone-haptics/ it would be very useful to have on FreeRunner too!!! ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: iphone-haptic

2008-03-02 Thread Tim Kersten
That looks like it could potentially be extremely useful! However, adding features to the Freerunner at this stage would presumably delay it even more. Personally, I'd be willing to wait another month if it meant that the Freerunner had such features. This would address one of the biggest problems

Re: iphone-haptic

2008-03-02 Thread Andrea Debortoli
2008/3/2, Tim Kersten [EMAIL PROTECTED]: That looks like it could potentially be extremely useful! However, adding features to the Freerunner at this stage would presumably delay it even more. Personally, I'd be willing to wait another month if it meant that the Freerunner had such features.

Re: iphone-haptic

2008-03-02 Thread Andy Green
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Somebody in the thread at some point said: 2008/3/2, Tim Kersten [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: That looks like it could potentially be extremely useful! However, adding features to the Freerunner at this stage would

Re: iphone-haptic

2008-03-02 Thread joerg
Am So 2. März 2008 schrieb Andy Green: - gpg control packet Somebody in the thread at some point said: 2008/3/2, Tim Kersten [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: That looks like it could potentially be extremely useful! However, adding features to the Freerunner at

Re: iphone-haptic

2008-03-02 Thread Andrea Debortoli
2008/3/2, joerg [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Am So 2. März 2008 schrieb Andy Green: - gpg control packet Somebody in the thread at some point said: 2008/3/2, Tim Kersten [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: That looks like it could potentially be extremely useful! However,

Re: iphone-haptic

2008-03-02 Thread Andrea Debortoli
2008/3/2, Andy Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Somebody in the thread at some point said: 2008/3/2, Tim Kersten [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: That looks like it could potentially be extremely useful! However, adding

Re: iphone-haptic

2008-03-02 Thread Ortwin Regel
On 3/2/08, Andrea Debortoli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what about this?? http://code.google.com/p/iphone-haptics/ it would be very useful to have on FreeRunner too!!! I have doubts about the usefulness of vibrator feedback. It can't help you find a button or tell you whether you pressed the

Re: iphone-haptic

2008-03-02 Thread Marko Knöbl
2008/3/2, Ortwin Regel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have doubts about the usefulness of vibrator feedback. It can't help you find a button or tell you whether you pressed the right one. Actually it CAN help you find a button. Please read the section Fingertip-Over-Edge Event in the article. I think

Re: iphone-haptic

2008-03-02 Thread Andrea Debortoli
It's an hard thing to tell if it could be useful or not...it's a totally new feature (I've never seen something similar), and I think we can evaluate it with practical test only. 2008/3/2, Marko Knöbl [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2008/3/2, Ortwin Regel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have doubts about the

Re: iphone-haptic

2008-03-02 Thread Gilbert Hartmann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tim Kersten wrote: That looks like it could potentially be extremely useful! However, adding features to the Freerunner at this stage would presumably delay it even more. Personally, I'd be willing to wait another month if it meant that the