Re: RE: Re: Re: Stylus Recommendation

2008-05-03 Thread Nicanor Babula
: 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 th

RE: Re: Stylus Recommendation

2008-05-02 Thread steve
-- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shawn Rutledge Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 5:29 PM To: List for Openmoko community discussion Subject: Re: Re: Stylus Recommendation On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 7:56 AM, Hans L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am not an electrical en

Re: Re: Stylus Recommendation

2008-05-02 Thread Shawn Rutledge
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 7:56 AM, Hans L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 Well you could tak

RE: Re: Re: Stylus Recommendation

2008-05-02 Thread steve
ginal Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

Re: Re: Re: Stylus Recommendation

2008-05-02 Thread Nicanor Babula
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

Re: Re: Stylus Recommendation

2008-05-02 Thread Kim Alvefur
On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 09:56 -0500, Hans L wrote: > On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 9:01 AM, Nicanor Babula <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I don't think that a magnetic stylus would be such a good idea, because > > any movement of the pen would create a current into every conductor existing > > in its ma

Re: Re: Stylus Recommendation

2008-05-02 Thread Hans L
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 9:01 AM, Nicanor Babula <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I don't think that a magnetic stylus would be such a good idea, because > any movement of the pen would create a current into every conductor existing > in its magnetic field (freerunner's circuits included). This curren

Re: Re: Stylus Recommendation

2008-05-02 Thread Nicanor Babula
I don't think that a magnetic stylus would be such a good idea, because any movement of the pen would create a current into every conductor existing in its magnetic field (freerunner's circuits included). This current might damage or disturb the phone itself. Instead of attaching the stylu