Questions you'd like answering, regardless of how trivial they may seem

[Alex321]

Why do touchscreens on phones and tablets never need calibrating?

I work with machinery that all use a HMI with a touchscreen, every now and again the screen needs a calibration, so why is it that phone screens never go out, and if they don't why not make the industrial HMIs to the same design?

I don't know what your particular HMIs are, but possibly because the pone screen is not going to need the same precision as your HMI screens.

But if yours is just a bunch of icons that you press, with no particular precision needed, then I don't see why they would need calibrating.

 

[stephec]

I don't know what your particular HMIs are, but possibly because the pone screen is not going to need the same precision as your HMI screens.

But if yours is just a bunch of icons that you press, with no particular precision needed, then I don't see why they would need calibrating.

They vary from 12" to15", depending on the exact model, both display the same information which is icons and an on screen keyboard that takes up around a third of the screen when in use, they don't often need recalibrating, but when they do it's because the touch is out by at least an inch.

I'd imagine my phone screen is quite precise, I use it for playing minesweeper, and a snooker game where the balls are only 4mm in diameter.

 

[Alex321]

They vary from 12" to15", depending on the exact model, both display the same information which is icons and an on screen keyboard that takes up around a third of the screen when in use, they don't often need recalibrating, but when they do it's because the touch is out by at least an inch.

That is crazy. It must use a different technology. I wonder if they aren't actually touch screens as such, but use something like my old nook e-reader does, hich is beams running across the surface of the screen, that register when they are interrupted.

I'd imagine my phone screen is quite precise, I use it for playing minesweeper, and a snooker game where the balls are only 4mm in diameter.

Ye, iit doesn't sound like that is the issue, from what you say.

 

[stephec]

That is crazy. It must use a different technology. I wonder if they aren't actually touch screens as such, but use something like my old nook e-reader does, hich is beams running across the surface of the screen, that register when they are interrupted.

There's two different types that I know of, resistive and capacitive, not sure what the differences are though.

 

[Jameshow]

Why was there a guy wearing nothing but a pair of underpants running alongside the A167 near Durham this morning?

Probably our @Accy?!

 

[Poacher]

Probably our @Accy?!

Rather reclusive member who's only made one post in 16 years!

 

[Jameshow]

Rather reclusive member who's only made one post in 16 years!

Sorry

@Accycyclist 👍

 

[Poacher]

Sorry

@Accycyclist 👍

Did you mean @Accy cyclist?

 

[Accy cyclist]

Probably our @Accy?!

Did you mean @Accy cyclist?

I can't run now. Not that I used to when I could, as I always preferred cycling, as you can have a rest when going downhill, unlike running when you have to keep running, either up or downhill, because if you stop running, then er, you stop. Whereas with cycling you can stop pedaling, but keep on moving.😉 On about a bloke running alongside an A road in his underpants, I often have a nightmare of me being punished for something weird, by being made to cycle from my flat to the farmhouse cafe in something like 25 miles away Faisor in North Yorkshire wee'd ride to in my North Lancs Cycling Club days, but while only wearing a fluorescent green mankini, flip flops, no lights on my bike and without a contact lens in my only working eye!😲 This is nightmare ride happens around midnight on a peeing it down, freezing winters night by the way! Not that if it was on a warm summer's night it'd be any easier! 😬

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

If you have a 'Soup of the day', then is there also a potentially suggestive 'Soup of the night?' 🤔😀

 

[markemark]

Phones aren’t touch screen. They use capacitance. Sometimes you can “touch” without actually touching it but just by being very close to it

 

[raleighnut]

If you have a 'Soup of the day', then is there also a potentially suggestive 'Soup of the night?' 🤔😀

Check out Billy Connolly and his story in Ireland of 'Potatoes Of The Night'

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

I can't run now. Not that I used to when I could, as I always preferred cycling, as you can have a rest when going downhill, unlike running when you have to keep running, either up or downhill, because if you stop running, then er, you stop. Whereas with cycling you can stop pedaling, but keep on moving.😉 On about a bloke running alongside an A road in his underpants, I often have a nightmare of me being punished for something weird, by being made to cycle from my flat to the farmhouse cafe in something like 25 miles away Faisor in North Yorkshire wee'd ride to in my North Lancs Cycling Club days, but while only wearing a fluorescent green mankini, flip flops, no lights on my bike and without a contact lens in my only working eye!😲 This is nightmare ride happens around midnight on a peeing it down, freezing winters night by the way! Not that if it was on a warm summer's night it'd be any easier! 😬

Now you have made me think of Susan on Babylon5 being naked in the command centre

Those that Know will know!

if not - ask Zaphros - Zaphros knows

 

[Animo]

Speedo Mick?

Hadn't heard of him but having looked him up I don't think it was the same bloke. The Speedos were different to the ones Mick seems to always wear.