how does the pen work on a computer tablet for drawing when it doesnt have a battery?
does anyone know how it is able to tell between the pen and pencil and eraser settings?
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Most likely, the tablet’s surface puts out a slight electrical current when pressure is applied.
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- Not so in all cases. With the one I have (Calcomp Creation Station - a 4"x6" “home user” tablet) the tablet picks up the 2-button pen and the 5-button mouse even when they are held about 1/4 inch away. The instructions say that you can trace pictures through items as much as 1/2" thick though I think that is optimistic, and it doesn’t work real accurately when tracing (whenever you move the pen or mouse, it tracks very well, but it tends to “lose” them if you stop moving them or hesitate while drawing, and it tends to “re-find” them just a bit away from where you stopped). Both the pen amd mouse are wireless and batteryless, and pressing anything else to the tablet doesn’t do anything.
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- Somebody asked a similar question just a little while back, didn’t they? - MC
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My Wacom Intuos tablet can recognize a number of different pens (all Wacom pens, of course). I can have each pen designated as a different type of tool.
I assume that there is some difference in the signature of the signal from each.
You might want to go to the Wacom site at www.wacom.com and if you can’t find the answer there, try www.howstuffworks.com
I think I’ll go look there myself.
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OldBroad, thanks for the http:/www.howstuffworks.com link. I may not be back for months.
i looked around that site, but didnt find any informationon it. were you able to find anything?
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Wouldn’t it be a gas if they worked because they have a tiny bit of radioactive material in them?