Pictures¶
Top layer of the case¶
Random intermediate design stage of first test print¶
Some pics of the first test print of oophone's top layer¶
with the resistive touch panel, a nokia speaker, the ePaper display and a SIM card.
Auf den Fotos fällt das Profil im Material
mehr heraus als in echt... fasst sich sehr angenehm an, leicht und
solide.
ASCII art design discussions¶
2014-03-17¶
plan was:
----- <-- touch
| |
|[ ]| <-- epaper (drawn inside)
|[ ]|
-----
prefer:
----- <-- align touch and epaper top edges of "usable area"
|[ ]|
|[ ]| <-- cable goes thru PCB slit "under middle" of touch
| |
-----
- acrylic layer between touch and epaper for lighting.
- PCB goes directly under epaper, components & antenna facing away
from epaper side. PCB extends "above" and "below" past the touch
panel, but not to the left and right.
- circular speaker (the one with springs) connects to pads on the side
where the epaper is ("backside" of PCB), the case needs to press it
onto the pads.
- battery not figured out properly yet...... one with a plug would be
best; maybe go and check out RC shops for RC battery packs.
2014-03-18, discussing "landscape" arrangement¶
---------------------------------------- | ------------------- <--touch | | |[ ]| <--epaper | | |[ ]| | | | | | | | |<---virt keyb | | ------------------- | ---------------------------------------- the epaper of course isn't as long as the touch: ---------------------------------------- | ---------------- <--touch | | |[ ] | <--epaper | | |[ ] | | | |[ ] | | | | | <---virt keyb| | ---------------- | ---------------------------------------- or ---------------------------------------- | ---------------- <--touch | | | [ ] | <--epaper | | | [ ] | | | | [ ] | | | | | <---virt keyb| | ---------------- | ---------------------------------------- or ---------------------------------------- | ---------------- <--touch | | | [ ]| <--epaper | | | [ ]| | | | [ ]| | | | | <---virt keyb| | ---------------- | ---------------------------------------- The space where "virt keyb" points is quite narrow though, so I don't think we can fit 30 symbols for an alphabet in there. I think that would only work well with this: --------------------------------------- | ---------------- <--touch | | |[ ] | <--epaper | | |[ eink ] | | | |[ ] virt | | | |[ ] kb | | | ---------------- | --------------------------------------- (the epaper turned 90°) The only real disadvantage here is that we lose like 3 or so pixel rows of the eink as the touch is juuust narrower than the epaper usable-screen-area length. The epaper flat band cable would easily fit around the PCB edge, as we've seen on sunday. So this is still a possibility, but since the eInk's non-screen length then extends past the width of the touch, the phone would be at least 72mm wide (eInk length) and 77+antenna mm long (touch length). (as opposed to ~ 64 x 77+ant mm) ...so at the end of the day, I don't like the 90° rotated eInk, IMHO they should both be 'portrait' (or both 'landscape'). Someone pointed out that it would be more versatile to have the kb displayed on the eink (languages, special characters, unicode and such).
2014-03-18, measurements¶
Touch panel [mm]
+---------63.65---------+ /___ 2
| +-----------------+ | \
|6.0| |2|
4 | | | |
6 | | touchable | |
. | | area | |7
0 | | facing up | |6
| | | |.
| | | |6
[|1 | | |
[[[[[49.5[[[[[|5 | | |
flat-flex [|.6 | | |
cable | | | |
1 | | | |
5 | | | |
.0| +-----------------+ | /___ 2
+---------63.65---------+ \
/1.35
+
in words:
63.65 x 76.6 x 1.35 mm
Usable area is about 2mm from each of 3 edges.
The fourth edge has a wider distance to the usable area: 6mm.
The fourth edge is one of the longer (76.6mm) edges, and also has the
cable. The cable is 15mm wide for ~3mm of cable length, then within 1mm
of length narrows to 5mm wide (cable is altogether ~ 49.5mm long).
Looking onto the touchable side with the cable to the left, the 15mm
wide section starts ~15mm from the bottom edge and ends ~46mm from the
top edge.
15 + 15 + 46 = 76.0 < 76.6; The .6 is twice .3mm leeway for cable,
so the fourth edge is actually sectioned as
15.0 + 15.6 + 46.0 = 76.6 mm
Der runde nokia speaker mit der Spiralfeder:
Ohne Gummi-Rand:
13.15mm ø
3.8mm Höhe (Feder expandiert)
2.7mm Höhe (Feder komprimiert)
Mit Gummi-Rand, locker gemessen:
15.5mm ø äußerster "dickerer Rand" vom Gummi, nur an der einen Kante
14.9mm ø "normaler" Rand
4.3mm Höhe (Feder expandiert)
3.4mm Höhe (Feder komprimiert)
Mit Gummi-Rand, stark zusammengedrückt gemessen:
14.5mm ø
2.6mm Höhe (Feder komprimiert)
Alle Messungen +- 5.0mm
just joking ;)
2014-03-22, back to "portrait" arrangement¶
+------------+
| . . . . . .|..< ant (antenna clear of speaker)
| O | < spk
|------------|--- touch
| | | | < eink
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
| |________| |
| |
|------------|
| |
| | } how much? (unknown)
+------------+
actually
+---------------+
| . . . . . . .|..< ant (antenna clear of speaker)
| O | < spk
| +------------+|--- touch
| | | | || < eink
| | | | ||
| | | | ||
| | | | ||
| | | | ||
| | |________| ||
| | ||
| +------------+|
| |
| o | } how much? (unknown)
+"------"""-----+
^ ^mic ^
^ ^
headset ^
jack ^
usb^
^
The touch has uneven amount of inactive area on one side,
so it's not really centered in the case.
The eink could go slightly to right depending on "scroll bar" width.
discussing display lighting¶
If that tin-foil-on-acryl-edges works, we might even bevel
the acryl edges 45°, stick tin foil on it, and then we can light the
acrylic layer from the bottom with upwards pointing leds :)
do you think that will work??
[=============touch======
_________________________
tinfoil// acryl (not to scale!)
bevel//__________________________ . . .
/^\ [========eink=====
=============PCB==================
led
might be good to only bevel exactly where a led is, so the other light
reaching the edges is reflected straight back in all the other places.
Or more tin foil on the bottom :) with holes for the leds and eink :)
an angle slightly lessarger than 45° might even be desirable, so it goes
slightly downwards towards the eink.
bevel 40°, light reflected 100°
2014-03-29, looking at the first test print of the phone case's top layer¶
Der Kabel-kanal passt super! man könnte den noch so wie eine skateboard quarter-pipe rund machen, weil jetzt knickt es am Ende vom breiten Kabel 90° ab. eine quarter pipe könnte das breite stück kabel etwas sanfter hochbeugen... is now: ### cable ### | ### | ### |~90° [--------------------------- - - ### \______[------------------------ - - touch ##################################### # # ###################################### # # case would be nice: ###/ ###| (~circular) ####\ #####\ [--------------------------- - - ########\__[------------------------ - - touch ##################################### # # ###################################### # # case
display lighting leds¶
I also noticed now that because the eink is a lot longer than its active
area, and because its cable comes out the bottom, and because we push
the eink to the top of the touch, the leds can only go on the sides
really. There is about 1 cm of wideness left, so there could be 5mm
space for display lighting on each side of the eink (if we stay within
the bounds of the touch panel). If we also go further to the side under
the front case, there's about 1.5cm altogether, so like 5mm on one and
10 mm on the other side.
___________________
[ [========] ] antenna
[ xxxx OOOO xxxx ] speaker
[ +----------------+] touch
[ |xx| |xx|] eink
[ |xx| |xx|] x = room for leds
[ |xx| |xx|] (covered by normal paper)
[ |xx| |xx|]
[ |xx| |xx|]
[ |xx| |xx|]
[ |xx| |xx|]
[ |xx| |xx|]
[ |xx|__________|xx|]
[ |xx|eink|stuff|xx|]
[ |xx|and|cable||xx|]
[ +----------------+]
[___________________]
correction: there is ~10mm of visible touch panel area for leds, but
~16mm in total, when extending under the wider inactive side of the
touch panel.
___________________
[ [========] ] antenna
[ xxxx 0OOO xxxx ] speaker
[ +----------------+] touch
[x|xx| |xx|] eink
[x|xx| |xx|] x = room for leds
[x|xx| |xx|] (covered by normal paper)
[x|xx| |xx|]
[x|xx| |xx|]
[x|xx| |xx|]
[x|xx| |xx|]
[x|xx| |xx|]
[x|xx|__________|xx|]
[x|xx|eink|stuff|xx|]
[x|xx|and|cable||xx|]
[ +----------------+]
[___________________]
\/ \/
A B A+B=10mm
\__/ \/ C+D=16mm
C D
> soll das eink in die mitte vom phone oder in die mitte vom touch > panel? :) ich glaub ich machs in die mitte vom phone :) ____________________ [ [========] ] antenna [ O00O ] speaker [ +----------------+] touch [ | | | |] eink with ascii cat [ | | _ _/| | |] [ | | \'o.0' | |] [ | | =(___)== | |] [ | | U | |] [ | | | |] [ | | | |] [ | | | |] [ | |__________| |] [ | |] [ | |] [ +----------------+] [____________________]
