New wishlist item: Side-mounted touch strip sensor

Wed Jun 20 18:28:37 CEST 2007

On 2007年6月20日, Ian Stirling wrote:
> michael at michaelshiloh.com wrote:
>> for non-invasive prototyping, there is also the usb port.
>>>> That's really quite annoying to use though - as anything more than -1th 
> generation prototype.
> You need external power, a plug that makes the phone unusable as an actual 
> portable phone when plugged in, and a seperate unit.
>>
as i said, it's for prototyping, and for doing it w/out opening the phone. i'm
not claiming anything else.
here's a simple CHEAP USB AVR development board. one of the demonstration
programs emulates a mouse; it would be so simple to modify that to do a slider
interface, and no drivers to cross-compile. plenty of undedicated IO pins to
interface to slider technology of your choice. hard to beat at 30ドル:
http://atmel.com/dyn/products/tools_card.asp?tool_id=3879