further to the badge project

[inshadowhiding.livejournal.com]

ok i am gonna annoy the ops a bit no doubt :P but in the earlier thread about badges i expressed interested in making some, and that is still going through my mind, so a couple of ideas have been generated that currently need input, and more ideas and churning through the works



firstly with inputs, i have a couple of badly drawn images to show to illustrate ideas that have been come up with. The colour in the images are not "true colour" but they are significant and meaningful

first suggestion:

in this option the screen has six buttons places close to it, in a " winged cross" configuration. this would use a "software keypad" ( ie, letters and symbols are selected on the screen) . this would be the most usable of the two options at night, because the keys can share a backlight with the LCD display.
the depression shown on the diagrams for both options represents a location of a button that would be used to cycle through settings/images/animations ( yes, i am aiming for a degree of animation to be possible)

second suggestion:

Front view


Rear View


In this option, the key pad is moved to the rear of the device, with the left most item in the diagram being a lock switch, to make it harder to register unintended key presses. this option allows a more extensive mini keypad

the white object depicted in the diagram represents the pin ( or if another method is registered, that.

options for data storage and transfer so far under consideration are a data cable, with a mini connector, similar in nature to a mini USB lead with an on-board storage, or, alternatively a flash card scheme, similar to those of some digital cameras.

it has also been suggested that perhaps additional data storage would be desirable in addition to display image data, is this something people want?

also, as it has been suggested in the previous thread, for " house styles" icons to be displayed, so a next question would be, is this something that might change? ( current assumption is yes). if not, it could be hardwired for which to show. the current thinking is to have part of the case translucent, with coloured LED's underneath lighting the silhouette of the icon shapes. these would be shielded from sharing led light source with the main screen for obvious reasons.
( i will ask later on in the process what icons people would like, but i am working on a guesstimate of approximately five options that can be mixed, which reminds me...)
can a house have more than one style at a time? ( ie, would having the ability to turn on more than one icon be useful )

anyway, what do people think?



eep! i forgot something


also what case colours would people want?, this will have to be a vote, but doesn't stop the idea of placings "decals" on the case ( ie images "pasted" on to the case. ... not immediately but isn't being ruled out)

the case would be a "basic colour", so for example: black, white, red, blue, green, purple, etc ( yes i know that technically black and white are not colours, but still )

Comments

[pthalo]

was this meant to be posted in multiplicity? If so, *curious*

[hellion0.livejournal.com]

It was. It's an ongoing project she has been discussing with us - a type of multi-purpose badge or nametag for multiple systems, one that can be changed on the fly as another person fronts to reflect exactly who is fronting.

There was a post made a couple of weeks ago here on the subject, and we've been advising her on it since then.

[pthalo]

ah, interesting. :)

Pthalo

[inshadowhiding.livejournal.com]

if you wish to read the post that the project grew out of, it is here (http://www.livejournal.com/community/multiplicity/295444.html)

[pthalo]

cool! There've been already more than 75 entries since then, so it was less easy for me to find just by scanning without using the month view.

[ricktboy.livejournal.com]

sounds like it could work on an old cell phone principle...anyway, it sounds great!

Faith
Pack Collective

[inshadowhiding.livejournal.com]

yes that was part of one concept, to reuse old parts in order to save costs, ( which makes it more afforadable for everyone ) and parts were much like old cellphone screens ( unless they acculy crack, they are almost always useable long after the orginal phone itself dies

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

What's to annoy? How can you have good ideas unless you have a lot of ideas? And get feedback from others, too?

[inshadowhiding.livejournal.com]

because this will most likely be repeated, a lot, till something comes out of it that works :P

but seriously, thank you everyone for your input so far. and it does seem that the more input i ask for the more likely it will be a useful product at the end, afterall, waht is the point of making soemthing that isn't of use to you?

[calliopeaurora.livejournal.com]

I love the second suggestion. I like the screen with the buttons at the back. Seems to me to feel... futuristic, in a sense.
Anyway, i think that with case colours probably black. Internal vote came back as black, so, yeah. The reasoning behind it was that whoever was at the front, in their various style of clothing or behaviour would be able to work with black while some other colours like green only appeal (and only co-ordiante) with a limited range of other colours and people.

Would there be a vast range of icons or animations? Mel (original) seems to think that she would like to design her own icon and somehow upload it onto hers (if she had one) to show not only that it was her but how unique she is. As suggested with the USB lead. But just a vast base could suit aswell if the uploading option can't work.

Calliope

[inshadowhiding.livejournal.com]

current thinking allows for both a limited pre existing images library on the device, and the allowance for other designs to be placed onto the device.
this is because there is a potential for rather complex things to be done with the device, that would not be easily doable from the local keypad, so being able to upload a pattern/sequence, is almost a necessity.
the methords being debated for this is a flash card/card reader/writer combination, and a USB-like cable scheme

an internal image base is something that i would like to do regardless of uploading capability, but will depend on my ability to coner, persuade some artist/graphics types to help :P

[changelyng14.livejournal.com]

You could simplify it all by taking a 'hello my name is' sticker to a piece of cardboard. then attach a spinny wheel to the back and cutting a hole. spinny wheel of stiff paper with all your names on it.

Lovecry

[enigma-system.livejournal.com]

I want to wear it as a necklace so you can get to the back buttons easier. (We switch a lot.)

We like the second idea.

And we like red, black, blue, and purple! ^^

[inshadowhiding.livejournal.com]

coolies,and that is a neat idea that i hadn't concidered, but coolies :)

( btw, the button to change between presets is on the side :P
)

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

We might like to wear it as a necklace as well. That's not too different from what a lot of plural people do on Laura; necklaces with name tags on them.

Favoured colours here: pink and gold for Aurea and the northern islands; deep blue, deep red, black and eggshell white for Koveh; sunset colours for Dascia; green and silver for the Eastern Islands, blue and silver for the Western Islands. I like sea-blue, being from Halath, in the southern Bay Area in Dascia.