From: mpm on
On Apr 29, 11:22 am, John Larkin
<jjlar...(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 08:43:14 -0700, Joerg <inva...(a)invalid.invalid>
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> >Jan Panteltje wrote:
> >> On a sunny day (Wed, 28 Apr 2010 18:54:16 -0700) it happened Joerg
> >> <inva...(a)invalid.invalid> wrote in <83s76hFa3...(a)mid.individual.net>:
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> >>> Do it before it happens and you absolutely have to get that one email
> >>> out, then start scrambling for the install disks with a flashlight in
> >>> hand while depleting precious battery juice :-)
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> >> Oh, I can send email, and internet from my GSM too :-)
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> >That quickly gets old when it's a fat layout that you have to revise and
> >then return the marked up layout back to the client ;-)
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> >I guess you can theoretically do that on an iPhone if it had a Gerber
> >editor but you'd need carpal tunnel surgery soon.
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> It would be interesting to have an iphone type touch screen interface
> for pcb layout, where you just use your fingers on the screen. But the
> screen would have to be mostly horizontal, to avoid arm fatigue.
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> That leads to the thing I've always wanted, a drafting table with a
> D-size LCD built into its surface, with resolution at least as good as
> I can do with a pencil. 10 million pixels might be OK.
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Better yet! - a PCB layout program that tracks your eyeball
movements.
You just stare at the two parts long enough (or maybe back and forth),
and it autoroutes the trace!

Just be careful picking up your beer, or checking out the hot
assistant walking down the hall.
Might short your power rails or something...