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Can’t you get capacitance with a wet sponge? Like your typical dish cellulose sponge. You could make a small platform?
I remember drawing on my old iPad back in the day by shoving a wet q-tip into a BIC pen and using it as a stylus. I am sure something similar could be rigged here
It's the reason why I love Note and S Ultra phones - the stylus. I'm using it now.
Apparantely on safari there's touch strength so this should be possible to make for the web too, cool
(If you do this, let me know and I can add it to the site above, and then we can both delight in the surprisingly large amount of unmonetizable traffic it gets.)
This reminds me of how, twenty years ago, I used the PowerBook’s hard drive vibration sensor to rig up a seismograph to measure construction noise: https://allthegooddomainsweretaken.justinmiller.io/2007/04/0...
Reminds me of the people who used their ThinkPad's vibration sensor to detect smacks on the machine, and rigged their X window manager to switch virtual desktops when smacked from the appropriate side, panning right when smacked on the left, and left when smacked on the right.
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Reminds me of the people who used their ThinkPad's vibration sensor to detect smacks on the machine, and rigged their X window manager to switch virtual desktops when smacked from the appropriate side, panning right when smacked on the left, and left when smacked on the right.
Oh, I vaguely remember someone hacking that for some sort of windowing back then on OS X!
I think this is neat, but only in a Rube Goldberg machine sort of way. The instructions are: 1. Open the scale 2. Rest your finger on the trackpad 3. While mainting finger contact, put your object on the trackpad 4. Try and put as little pressure on the trackpad while still maintaining contact. This is the weight of your object That is, the pressure sensors only work if it detects capacitance, so you need to be touch…
This reminds me of how, twenty years ago, I used the PowerBook’s hard drive vibration sensor to rig up a seismograph to measure construction noise: https://allthegooddomainsweretaken.justinmiller.io/2007/04/0...
I heard that IBM decided to move out of this building [1] because vibration due to the construction of the tower across the street kept destroying hard drives in their computing center. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/330_North_Wabash
Apple would've made an app a long time ago but would get sued after someone put a tire on it.
There used to be iPhone apps that did something similar - https://www.theverge.com/2015/10/28/9625340/iphone-6s-gravit...
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I remember drawing on my old iPad back in the day by shoving a wet q-tip into a BIC pen and using it as a stylus. I am sure something similar could be rigged here
I've used carrots and cucumbers as a capacitive stylus while wearing gloves. It's the reason why I love Note and S Ultra phones - the stylus. I'm using it now.