Hi Everyone,
Does anyone in this forum have any ideas on how to prop up the Shift without having to slide it out, therefore exposing the keyboard?
I am looking for some type of prop (pun intended) to prop it up. I know I can stick a book behind it or something like that, but I am looking for something a little more sturdy.
I do photography, so it would be nice to be able to make it stand up for presentation purposes. Like how a desk-picture frame has its backing to hold it up.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
-Harold
MrJinx said:
Hi Everyone,
Does anyone in this forum have any ideas on how to prop up the Shift without having to slide it out, therefore exposing the keyboard?
I am looking for some type of prop (pun intended) to prop it up. I know I can stick a book behind it or something like that, but I am looking for something a little more sturdy.
I do photography, so it would be nice to be able to make it stand up for presentation purposes. Like how a desk-picture frame has its backing to hold it up.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
-Harold
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ProCLip makes a mount for the Shift to mount in a car now and the also have a desk stand that you can then attach the Shift mount to.
Shift Mount
http://www.proclipusa.com/?sectionp...egoryid=&p_year=&p_countryid=0&p_leftorright=
Desk Top Stand
http://www.proclipusa.com/?sectionp...egoryid=&p_year=&p_countryid=0&p_leftorright=
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Hello,
I don't know if the subject was already discussed, but I never saw anything about that.
So, as we are a lucky to own a device with a removing keyboard, I thought we could plug something else like a real pad and some buttons to make our device looks and feels like a real portable console. Take a look at the pic, though it is just a draft.
I think we could get the pad and the buttons from a real little joystick (there's plenty of them for diferent consoles), mount them on the Athena and join them with micro wires to the 8 pins used to connect the keyboard.
We would need informations about how the keyboard work with the main unit.
This is just an idea but I think it could be a really good one. I'm not a good homemade genius nor an amator, though, if you are interested, we could maybe work together on this project.
The cursor pad does exactly what the Athens' own joystick does. You can skip that.
mahjong said:
The cursor pad does exactly what the Athens' own joystick does. You can skip that.
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Hello,
I noticed that the stick on the Athena's can't do up-right,up-left,down-right nor down-left. At first look and first use I thought the stick was well designed, but finaly this issue prevents playing most games. If people here can use the stick to do diagonal axis, please let me know.
Aynway, the main idea was to make the Athena looks and feels like a real portable console. Game buttons really lake for this purpose and the ones available just suck. The feel is not good and they are not well set.
Also I'm not talking about piercing holes in the athena but finding a way to fix a pad+buttons set on the surface of the machine.
luthor_70 said:
Hello,
I noticed that the stick on the Athena's can't do up-right,up-left,down-right nor down-left. At first look and first use I thought the stick was well designed, but finaly this issue prevents playing most games. If people here can use the stick to do diagonal axis, please let me know.
Aynway, the main idea was to make the Athena looks and feels like a real portable console. Game buttons really lake for this purpose and the ones available just suck. The feel is not good and they are not well set.
Also I'm not talking about piercing holes in the athena but finding a way to fix a pad+buttons set on the surface of the machine.
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When u say fix a pad+buttons set on the surface do you sorta like using a silicon skin over the device with the buttons built in on it and using either fiber optic wires or some kind of thin ribbon cable going back to the keyboard pads and all the necessary cutouts already in place on the skin so you can still access all the stuff (ie. reset, battery area, external gps conectors etc. etc...) Or was I way over my head on this one?
tootallk2000 said:
When u say fix a pad+buttons set on the surface do you sorta like using a silicon skin over the device with the buttons built in on it and using either fiber optic wires or some kind of thin ribbon cable going back to the keyboard pads and all the necessary cutouts already in place on the skin so you can still access all the stuff (ie. reset, battery area, external gps conectors etc. etc...) Or was I way over my head on this one?
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Well, there are many ways to bind a system like that on the device without damaging it and by keeping access to the functions you mentioned. I haven't thought about that yet because I think the 1st thing to figure out is how the Athena deals with the keyboard using the pins. Has anyone ever seen informations about that ?
A very good & interesting idea , in my opinion add more buttons is always better as u have more choices to activate these buttons if otherways failed to do so , and i don't think it will take up space in the ram / rom , anyway Htc should look into this page , always more buttons , more better i say
- thanks for reading - jimmunsw
I know there is some interest in these and I myself was waiting for someone to do a write up but I'm impatient and just got mine so I thought I'd throw some info out and hopefully help someone else out since I've already gotten so much out of this forum. The first thing you'll notice is that the plastic feels really cheap. Honestly almost repacked it to send it back because of how light and cheap it felt. That said and in particular because of the lack of alternatives, I gave it a shot. And on the whole I’m glad I did.
Putting it together and installing is pretty easy. I'm a nug and I did it without reading the instructions. Putting the gtab in and taking it out of the mount is also pretty easy. There are two sets of supports; the bottom stays stationary and the top is adjustable and easily fits the gtab in landscape and now that I think about it possibly in portrait too I will also see if my elocity a7 fits in it in landscape but I know it will in portrait (I’ll post a separate review for it in the elocity section if it works). In my prius, the position is as good as I could have hoped for making for easy inputs at stops but it’s not too useable while driving. While driving there is a certain amount of shaking but not too bad I could easily read off it with quick looks but it could be disorienting for some.
Also the cupholder mechanism takes some massaging to get it set well in the prius’ cupholder but it is doable. In my element it’s a whole other story (expectedly). The cupholder mechanism fit perfectly into my e’s cupholder but the cup holder is so low that this mount is worthless in it or any other car that has cupholders below seat level.
At this point I have no idea how durable this mount will be. I don’t know much about different types of plastics (I barely know the difference ABS and PET) but the material that this mount is made of does not inspire confidence. That said the plastic does not seem too brittle and therefore more likely to hold up. Time will tell and I will update as appropriate. I hope this information helps someone out there who was looking for a similar mount.
Steve
Edit: http://www.mountguys.com/product_p/mfx-33-tab.htm
I bought the same one. Seems a little flimsy with the weight of the gtab. Moves a lot more than I would like while driving.
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With the viewing angles on the grab goodluck.
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I have a Prius also. Do you mind taking a few pics so we can see what that setup looks like? thanks!
The next few days are pretty busy but I'll try to get some quick pics up. what year prius do you have? mine's an 09 so I can only speak to the positioning for 04-09s I haven't seen the interior of the gen3s.
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I bought the same one. Seems a little flimsy with the weight of the gtab. Moves a lot more than I would like while driving.
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It does move around a bit but once I set it super tight, I found it manageable but then I may be more tolerant the others.
xRepinsSporx said:
With the viewing angles on the grab goodluck.
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The viewing angles have never been that big an issue for me. I personally don't understand what all the fuss is about. in this case in particular that issue is moot since the mount's angle is adjustable.
Thanks for the review and I look forward to the pics.
djyellowperil said:
The next few days are pretty busy but I'll try to get some quick pics up. what year prius do you have? mine's an 09 so I can only speak to the positioning for 04-09s I haven't seen the interior of the gen3s.
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I have an '05 and my wife an '06. I should be getting my gTablet tomorrow, but I won't be surprised when my wife finally sees it and asks for one of her own
Anyone find a better car mount for the Gtab than the one talked about in this thread? Also what's the deal with all these Gtab owners also driving around a Prius? LOL.
Hey everyone,
I am building my own car mount for my 94 mercury sable. Laugh if you want, its a beast with 85k miles.
Anyways, I came across:
Cradle
http://www.ram-mount.com/CatalogRes...rtid/082065077045050051052045054/Default.aspx
Mount
http://www.ram-mount.com/CatalogRes...65077045066045049048049085045067/Default.aspx
Since I have no center console (sadface) I am going to go to the junk yard and see if I can swap one in. Otherwise I am going to remove one of my DINs and bolt it inside there. I will post pictures once I get a chance.
I was looking into that cradle for a possibility in my application that I will be putting on the market, let me know what your impressions are of that cradle as it seemed to be designed for laptops, not a vertical placement for a tablet only set up.
skyfox99 said:
I was looking into that cradle for a possibility in my application that I will be putting on the market, let me know what your impressions are of that cradle as it seemed to be designed for laptops, not a vertical placement for a tablet only set up.
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Well, it can go vertical, Its just a big ugly piece behind it. Take a look at their demo information on it. Their xoom mount doesn't even come out till July!
http://lifehacker.com/5747897/how-to-build-a-car-mount-for-your-cellphone-from-office-supplies
I'm going to make it this weekend. I'll take pics and let you all know the results.
I have a 1994 Chevy Lumina (It just won't die), and it has a lip that goes over the front dash where the controls are for the heat. I can't stand window mounts, and any other mount I tried, I didn't like.
I tried searching for a car mount that clips or would clip onto something like the front of my dash, and I couldn't find anything. Google brought me to that project, and I am going to try it this weekend.
Anyone else try it? Do you like it? I am pretty stoked to do this, as I am a DIY kind of person.
I'll post back the results after I do it this weekend.
I don't think this will be nearly large enough to hold a Note, not by a long shot. It is an interesting KISS design though. I'm working on a "How To" for making a car dock out of Kydex. It will be far more work then the rubberband/paperclip one pictures, but will be more along the lines of a ProClip in design, but due to having everything in the mail, I wont be starting on the actual build until this weekend at the soonest, and thats if my Kydex sheets come in really fast.
Yes it works one of our interns made one for his Evolution.
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There's quite a size difference between the evo and the note. But then again I may be wrong (wife claims it happens occasionally) .
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I took the back off the Nook and disconnected the battery.
I removed the tape on the battery on three sides
I drilled a hole.
I chamfered the inside edges
I glued a round 1/4-20 T nut in the hole using JB Weld epoxy.
I used a bolt and an old plastic lid with a hole in it to pull it tight for drying.
I reassembled the Nook.
The next morning I removed the bolt.
Now I have a Nook that mounts on those little bendy camera tripods.
I can also just stick in a 1/4-20 2.5" bolt as a leg.
I'm going to get an accessory arm so that I can put it on my mic stand.
Nice!
Best topic name ever xD
For lyrics or podcasting?
wooow
but will u add mic on this whole???
r u in hardware cracking staff
outstanding
Besides reading books, I use my Nook for display of my guitar transcriptions with lyrics and for recording 24 bit audio.
I don't use a builtin mic, I use a Shure SM58 (standard stage mic) and a Lexicon Alpha USB interface.
Getting it to work is all part of this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1457971
I haven't really ported my guitar transcription display program over to Android yet as it's actually quite complicated.
I format songs as PNGs on my desktop and then have a simple program on the Nook that can scroll them.
I have a database front-end for looking up songs that's actually more convenient than anything that I have on my desktop.
Renate NST said:
Besides reading books, I use my Nook for display of my guitar transcriptions with lyrics and for recording 24 bit audio.
I don't use a builtin mic, I use a Shure SM58 (standard stage mic) and a Lexicon Alpha USB interface.
Getting it to work is all part of this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1457971
I haven't really ported my guitar transcription display program over to Android yet as it's actually quite complicated.
I format songs as PNGs on my desktop and then have a simple program on the Nook that can scroll them.
I have a database front-end for looking up songs that's actually more convenient than anything that I have on my desktop.
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so .... ummmm....... what the point of drilled a hole in ur nook? ...
speedman2202 said:
so .... ummmm....... what the point of drilled a hole in ur nook? ...
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The point is so that I can use a camera mini-tripod to hold the Nook so that I can read it without holding it.
Renate NST said:
The point is so that I can use a camera mini-tripod to hold the Nook so that I can read it without holding it.
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Check mine out
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1602093
Here's a few photos of a desk mic stand that I am using with a home-built adapter.
price
Renate NST said:
Here's a few photos of a desk mic stand that I am using with a home-built adapter.
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how much is this pod?
When I bought the stand it was $8 US.
The price seems to have creeped up to $12 in only a week.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002PAW6EG/
The photo shows the wrong length gooseneck, mine is 8", 20 cm long.
Nice.
The link trail from the USB kernel mods has been quite a trip.
What a cool and interesting thing you have done. Very very nice.
They were throwing this device in with purchases of the Color not too long ago. Sometimes the most interesting times for a device is when the manufacturer moves on.
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What a cool and interesting thing you have done. Very very nice.
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second that
Renate, you may have a market if you could package the round 1/4-20 T nut into a generic back cover for the nook (to look just like this for the iphone http://goo.gl/noOBd )...
Renate do you think one of these http://www.millennium-music.co.uk/mic-spring-clip-holder-mp850 would be enough to hold the nook with that base you got from amazon? many thanks
The problem with clips is that they are always a bit awkward and slippery.
I think that the 1/4" insert is perfect.
It's minimal but is sufficient for a solid mount.
It doesn't really get in the way of slip-on cases or holding it in your hand.
I used the mic clip that cam with the desk stand.
I threw away the clip part and sawed off the two lugs on the base.
I drilled a whole through the center of the base and screwed in a 1/4" bolt.
In bed I use a little bendy tripod.
I usually use it as a single foot with the base of the Nook resting on a surface.
as I don't have a drill, here is my plan... this http://goo.gl/0VXbX glued to the back of this http://goo.gl/HupQE and screwed to the base you have http://goo.gl/i9ztI... wish me luck
Yup, that should work pretty well.
That will give you a nice solid mount.
I hadn't known about that hard back at the time.
I had thought about bending up a little aluminum tray.
You'll forgive me if I still prefer my little internal 1/4" mount.
Could this method be used to install nook on bicycle ? Or maybe somebody know better bicycle fixing mechanism?