Hmm... not sure. English is a funny language. We say "pen input" and "stylus input" but we don't normally say "pencil input", but we could. And yes, "pencil input" did make me think of a graphite pencil (and I wondered for a moment whether a wooden pencil or a mechanical one would do more damage). But for some reason "pen input" doesn't make me imagine ink all over the screen -- my brain seems to have a separate compartment for "pen" in this context.
There are the slim soldering irons called soldering pencils. But that's the only example I can think of of the use of "pencil" to mean a thin cylinder.Oddly enough I think that's due to a tradition of calling pen- and pencil-like objects pens. Because its so rare for an English speaker to call a pen-like object a "pencil" we don't expect to hear (or read) it used to describe non-pencil objects.
Staggering price for that! Considering it is just a wooden pencil with a magnet in the tip, it probably costs no more to make than a regular pencil since it saves the step of putting the "lead" inside.Exception:
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Actually, I would guess that in terms of manufacturing it's probably cheapest to modify the existing process as little as possible. as such I wouldn't be surprised if that core with the stylus tip runs the length of the pencil.Staggering price for that! Considering it is just a wooden pencil with a magnet in the tip, it probably costs no more to make than a regular pencil since it saves the step of putting the "lead" inside.
All the descriptions of the technology I have found so far are extremely hand-wavy, so I don't know. Originally I thought a magnet in the pen and an array of Hall sensors on the display. But it seems that there is maybe a magloop antenna in the pen that alternately collects energy (transmitted at radio or microwave frequencies (?) from the display) and then retransmits it to be an array of field strength sensors in the display. That would seem to require at least an inductor and a capacitor in the pen and maybe not much more. I'm curious to have a more authoritative and detailed answer!Magnets? Is that how they work? I thought it used RF somehow.
On the Pandora it used one of the speakers as they have a built on magnet, the Pyra has a dedicated magnet. A Hall effect sensor is used to sense the presence of a magnetic field or not.Magnets? Is that how they work? I thought it used RF somehow.
The tip of the stylus will probably be the same as the Pandora one I reckon?
Though I use it a lot, I'm not too fond of the Pandora stylus as it's sometimes a bit sharp on one side, causing me to scratch the screen.
When I experience that I always scratch the stylus tip over my jeans to smoothen it. It helps but isn't ideal.
Does anyone have any ideas (tip) for a better stylus?
I assume you mean a silicone tip, which seems to be a common material for making capacitive touchscreen styli. A tip coated with silicon or silica would itself be rather scratchy - silica is the main constituent other than the paper backing in sandpaper.
But a good stylus for capacitive screens make bad styluses for resistive screens like the Pyra will have. I'll have to check if the Pyra stylus is included in the polycarbonate production runs we've seen though; I think the Pandora stylus was made out of ABS or some other soft plastic. The only danger will be that if that does get sharp on one side, or the mould line hasn't been ground out properly, I'd expect that to be hard enough to scratch the touchscreen.