TI-H: Serial Mouse / other interface
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TI-H: Serial Mouse / other interface
The calc can only have 2 inputs. The touch screen you describe would
require 3 - one for x-coord, one for y-coord. and a third to tell if it
is being touched. And you'd have to continuously read the third input
anyway, so it makes no difference.
Also, since the joystick uses potentiometers, the amount of resistance
would tell where it is supposed to be, and then you could calculate the
direction by comparing the new resistances with the old resistances
(actually voltage difference as a result of the resistance, but I don't
wanna go back and change all that...)
Mj
>
>Now what you you all think of a detached touch screen? Like a pad the
>same size of the screen plugged into the link port so that when the
>program reads in the voltage from the touch-screen the program can tell
>exactly where you want to be on the screen and not where you are going.
>that solves the problem of reading in constantly and having lag. This
>way the prog finds where you are only when it cares. This would be
>great for duck hunt or even organizational programs. just read
movement
>from the link port. A nicer idea would be to mount this ON the screen
>but that would require more than I think is currently possible. For
all
>I know this has already been done and I am just rambling. I'm just
full
>of ideas...
>
>-Ransacked
>
>>>Which would inturn make the games slower. The games would have to
>>check
>>>the port, find the cords, and place the cursor there.
>>>
>>>Grant
>>
>>
>>Pretty much what ZPong did, right?
>>
>>also, wouldn't it be easier to have a joystick type controller
instead?
>>(no space for a mouse!) Then you could just use 2 potentiometers and
>>read the voltage drop to find the location; cool eh? maybe I'll try
>this
>>next week when winter vac. starts!... if I finish my I2C expander...
>>
>>
>>Mj
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