What to do when boredom ensues? part deux...

[TAKTAK]

following on from the first session, some of you may know, that i have decided to mutilate the little beauty and make few improvements...

the most noticeable and the focus of this thread is the touchscreen...

and this time the pictures are crystal clear... honest they are... if they look blurry to you then you may need yours eyes checking

okay... so i lied... they are probably worse this time around...



and hey ho, away we go again:

first up (as last time) is a picture of the sacrificial lamb:


secondly is the touchscreen kit (the controller and the overlay):


as mentioned above... here is the control board:


and here is the overlay...:




now... to do the same as last time...

flip her over and undo her buttons ...:


remove the keyboard same as last time:

first the little tabs:


then the cable:


now disconnect the trackpad:


undo all of the screws in the heatsinky/keyboard holdy/thingy ma bob:


remove the plate by lifting and prising:


now you should have a pile of bits, if you havn't then your doing it wrong...:


here you can see the thermal pad terror that i inflicted in the last rendition:

[TAKTAK]

now, time to get to the monitor:

underneath these:



there are some screws... they need to be undone...


again you need to prise it apart to get into it:


then, once inside you get a glimpse of the loverlyness:


teh webcam:


teh speakers:


teh growing pile of removed bits...:



now... to make some room for the touch panel... we need to remove the gubbins and the monitor of course...:
to remove the monitor, unscrew the lower circuit board and then disconnect the monitor...




now remove the aforementioned gubbins:




the blind eee:


now, we need all the room we can get so remove the metal frame:



the pile grows...:

[TAKTAK]

now... the control board connects via USB... sooooo, the easiest way seeing as though i dont use the webcam?:


is disconnect the webcam and splice the two cables...:


this is where i am planning on putting everything...:


so some plastic needed hacking off:



the de-plasticated control board


the awaiting splice:


and while im waiting to splice the cable i might aswell partially re-assemble and use....:




the partial rebuild also eliminates my fears that i had broken the backlight...

thus concludes the current stage.......
such a lovely place to leave it for the time being

[Funkstar]

A few quick questions:
1. How much is the touchscreen upgrade?
2. does it work with fingers as well as a pen?
3. does this just work with the Eee, or other netbooks too?

[SiM]

Nice! So what can Linux do with a touch screen? Or are you gonna stick XP Tablet PC edition on?

[TAKTAK]

A few quick questions:
1. How much is the touchscreen upgrade?

it cost me (i think) £27 for the overlay and controller board from ebay

2. does it work with fingers as well as a pen?

it should do as it just reacts to pressure... but time will tell when i get it set up...

3. does this just work with the Eee, or other netbooks too?

it works with anything if you can get the right size and make room for it (the overlay is about 3mm thick)

Nice! So what can Linux do with a touch screen? Or are you gonna stick XP Tablet PC edition on?

Well, i was going to whack XP Pro back on it again... buuuut i read somewhere that xandros picks it up fine (with a few tweaks) and then you can tweak the settings using (cant remember the program name and its really annoying me ) running under WINE.

[digit]

Another excellent article Tak Tak, I'm looking forward to the next update.

[pollaxe]

Excellent. I envy people with the skills and nimble fingers to do this kind of thing.

[TAKTAK]

Another excellent article Tak Tak, I'm looking forward to the next update.

why thankyou

Excellent. I envy people with the skills and nimble fingers to do this kind of thing.

i really dont have skills nimble fingers... and my soldering has become pants that is the main reason why i am splicing cables... as there is plenty of distance between them to maneuver in to solder them... and then just isolate from other things with electrical tape.

[SiM]

Now you can interactively fondle the breasts on your favourite pr0n0s

[TAKTAK]

Now you can interactively fondle the breasts on your favourite pr0n0s

only you would think of that...

[SiM]

Wasn't it why you did this mod in the first place?

[TAKTAK]

Wasn't it why you did this mod in the first place?

strangely no...

i decided to go this route as i despise using touchpads... (sit at a dodgy angle with the eee so it gives my a hand cramp)
therefore the touchscreen would do away with the need to use it...

[sleepyhead]

That is brilliant Taktak

Soon you'll be working for Hexus doing Hexus mods on netbooks

[SiM]

Or working in the pr0n industry designing new interactive products.

TAKTAK, you should develop a 3D screen for pr0n too

[TAKTAK]

That is brilliant Taktak

why thanks

Soon you'll be working for Hexus doing Hexus mods on netbooks

i highly doubt that... buuuuut... if theres a job going


and i have been toying with the idea of a new 'lid' (i.e. get rid of ASUS and replace with TAKTAK ), i need to get my head around fiberglass and etchings though, or just make a name plate and mount it in a sunken part...