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Putting the EasyPoint™ into a Nintendo 3ds

shop@ams.com (Administrator User) — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:18:20 +0000

Since I started playing with the nice Nintendo 3ds I was asking myself how the EasyPoint™ module would do in the Nintendo? Would it be a good replacement especially as it has the added click functionality?

WOW!! Another gaming phone using the EasyPoint™ mini joystick on the market

shop@ams.com (Administrator User) — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 10:24:29 +0000

The MOPS Shadow T800 Smart Phone Gaming Console is using the EasyPoint™ mini joystick module for navigation and gaming. We know that mobile gaming is a booming market and we can witness that these new devices are a symbiosis between Smart Phones and portable Gaming Consoles more often than ever.

Charly is playing a racing game on his mobile phone

shop@ams.com (Gernot Rief) — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 10:34:38 +0000

This is the 6th story about Charly. He has finished his job successfully at the timber mill and everyone is happy. Today he will tell us more about the usage of the EasyPoint™

Charly present a collection of the best photos and video clips to his client

shop@ams.com (Patricia Moosburger) — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 09:26:29 +0000

Here is the 5th story of Charly and his job at the timber mill using his digital camera to take pictures and video clips. Today he has to present his selected raw material to his client before he can go onto making the final version of the promotion video. He will tell us how he uses a presenter to be more efficient during his presentation. Of course he will consider how much easier it would be to use the EasyPoint™ for the presentation.

ATTENTION! NEW!

shop@ams.com (Patricia Moosburger) — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:58:28 +0000

The NEW EasyPoint™ evaluation software is available for download NOW!

Full Windows 7/64 support!

Charly is doing video clips on his professional digital camera

shop@ams.com (Patricia Moosburger) — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 09:27:53 +0000

Here is the fourth story of Charly using his professional digital camera. Today he is doing video clips. He will tell us about his experiences with the standard user interface and how an advanced user interface with EasyPoint™ would perform when using the internal video player of the camera.

Charly is navigating in a 3x3 photo matrix on his professional digital camera

shop@ams.com (Patricia Moosburger) — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 08:33:49 +0000

Here is the third of Charly’s stories about his professional digital camera. In the last 2 stories he told us the real value and benefits of the EasyPoint™ if it were built into his camera. He would certainly buy such a camera on the spot because it would save him a lot of time. This time I met Charly early in the morning to talk about how a camera using the EasyPoint™ would make his life easier in a particular situation.

Charly is using his professional digital camera

shop@ams.com (Patricia Moosburger) — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 06:07:38 +0000

This is the second story from Charly. I hope you red the first story where Charly shot many pictures with his new and professional camera in a timber company for the web site of his client. But what will Charly tell us today?

Charly is browsing through a photo gallery with his professional digital camera

shop@ams.com (Patricia Moosburger) — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 05:23:55 +0000

In the following weeks we will post some stories and experiences of Charly – our test person – who did some experiments on different areas of use of the EasyPoint™. He will tell us how to use a digital camera, a remote control for presentations and a game controller with the EasyPoint™.

FREE: everlasting, waterproof push-button

shop@ams.com (Patricia Moosburger) — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 06:04:00 +0000

If you are offered something for free, there’s normally a catch – sooner or later, you will be asked for something in return. Our EasyPoint™ team has concocted a genuine give-away, however: push-button functionality at no extra bill-of-materials cost when you implement a navigational input device.

EasyPoint™ Zero Point auto calibration for high volume production

shop@ams.com (Patricia Moosburger) — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 13:21:03 +0000

Considering high volume production of the EasyPoint™ joystick solution one of the first questions I would ask, is how to manage the mechanical offset between the magnet and IC because of the assembly tolerances and what happens if there is a drift over time. Another question would be how to handle the slight differences between the modules. This is a valid question for both, the Full-Module and the Single-Module solution.

EasyPoint™ in Google's Arduino Development Kit (ADK)

shop@ams.com (Patricia Moosburger) — Mon, 30 May 2011 05:28:17 +0000

It was 990 a.D. when he became Margrave of Ivrea. Seven years later he was excommunicated. Another five years later he was King of Italy. Today after a millennium his name is present all around the world.

Taking better Pictures

shop@ams.com (Patricia Moosburger) — Wed, 11 May 2011 05:56:06 +0000

The user interface of still cameras is a very important topic. As a photographer your focus lies upon the scene you are going to ban onto your memory card next. But in many cases the time frame in which to take the perfect shot is only open for a few seconds.

This is a -20°C COLD story about touch screens and mobile phones

shop@ams.com (Patricia Moosburger) — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 07:03:47 +0000

In January we had a very cold winter in central Europe. The temperature gauges even dropped down below minus 20°C. I felt quite happy on the Monday when the temperature dropped below minus 20 C°, as my car so fit to start up.

Navigating around Navigation Devices

shop@ams.com (Patricia Moosburger) — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 04:57:46 +0000

I’m suddenly in the market for a new GPS device. The Garmin StreetPilot c550 I’m still using is now getting old. To input addresses I have to type them in on an alphabetical -- not QWERTY -- keypad. Until you try this you can’t imagine how slow and how difficult it is to do without making mistakes. It does however have several useful features, including MP3 and Bluetooth, but, ironically, it lacks a decent “navigation” method to find and activate some features.

Joysticks are more trendy than ever for mobile gaming

shop@ams.com (Patricia Moosburger) — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 05:24:10 +0000

The year 2011 is the year of the next generation mobile gaming consoles. Nintendo comes out with the Nintendo 3DS and Sony with the Sony NGP. Nintendo adds a joystick (they call it Circle Pad) above the four direction keypad.

Fantastic smartphone design is crying out for a better user input device

shop@ams.com (Patricia Moosburger) — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 12:40:34 +0000

I was in Barcelona recently at Mobile World Congress, the annual festival of the mobile phone industry, and I played with at least ten beautiful new smartphones there. If you felt tempted to buy me a birthday present, I’d be happy with any one of them! They give you a beautiful, high-resolution touchscreen display, a super-fast processor, support for thousands of great apps and crystal-clear music playback.

Have you ever wondered how the EasyPoint™ would work in your device?

shop@ams.com (Patricia Moosburger) — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 13:41:27 +0000

Now you have got the chance! As of now there are new EasyPoint™ demo and adapter boards available.

Solving three dimensional positioning problems with the AS5013

shop@ams.com (Patricia Moosburger) — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 14:52:07 +0000

Although the AS5013 hall sensor solution is at the heart of the EasyPointTM Joystick, it is also very valuable for solving problems in all sorts of different applications.

Do you have a “Cloud Mouse”? – What’s that?

shop@ams.com (Patricia Moosburger) — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 08:55:49 +0000

Have you ever seen a Cloud Mouse? – No? – But in the near future this could well be our new standardized HMI device. Only time will tell? Nevertheless let me tell you what brings me to this futuristic topic!