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Is it really so hard to make the tip of ipad styli not be the size of a stick of chalk?
Looking for an ipad stylus to emulate the feel of using a wacom stylus as on the Windows Tablets.
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Yeah, it is.
iPads and 95% of android tablets use capacitive touch, because its what works best with your finger, is cheap to manufacture, and non-complicated (i.e. damage resistent) technology. The downside is, of course, that you need to duplicate a finger in a stylus on those devices.
A Wacom tablet is a more complicated beast - hence the expense - but works like what you are expecting, it sounds like. It's a combination of resistive technologies, pressure technology and electrostatic technologies - and requires a special pen to "play along." Those three things combined give you the feel and power of pens/pencil/brushes, etc without the concern of capacitive influence (like your hand resisting on the surface) getting in the way.
HTC has a low cost solution on the HTC Flyer that uses a modified resistive technology that also uses a special pen type. The Samsung Galaxy Note and Note 10.1 use something similar, but I haven't looked into what it is.
If you are sticking with the iPad, or most of the Android tablets, you can get a close approximation to what you are looking for by getting the Adonit Jot Pen (www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005GSNLBQ/ref=oh_detail...) - it's still a capacitive pen, but uses a clever convention to isolate the capacitive resistance to a tiny, pen like surface. It's a fragile tip, and your hand resisting on the surface will still screw you up, but it will get you close.
If you really want to do wacom-like drawing on a tablet, check out the Samsung Note 10.1..it works really well...
Good luck!
iPads and 95% of android tablets use capacitive touch, because its what works best with your finger, is cheap to manufacture, and non-complicated (i.e. damage resistent) technology. The downside is, of course, that you need to duplicate a finger in a stylus on those devices.
A Wacom tablet is a more complicated beast - hence the expense - but works like what you are expecting, it sounds like. It's a combination of resistive technologies, pressure technology and electrostatic technologies - and requires a special pen to "play along." Those three things combined give you the feel and power of pens/pencil/brushes, etc without the concern of capacitive influence (like your hand resisting on the surface) getting in the way.
HTC has a low cost solution on the HTC Flyer that uses a modified resistive technology that also uses a special pen type. The Samsung Galaxy Note and Note 10.1 use something similar, but I haven't looked into what it is.
If you are sticking with the iPad, or most of the Android tablets, you can get a close approximation to what you are looking for by getting the Adonit Jot Pen (www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005GSNLBQ/ref=oh_detail...) - it's still a capacitive pen, but uses a clever convention to isolate the capacitive resistance to a tiny, pen like surface. It's a fragile tip, and your hand resisting on the surface will still screw you up, but it will get you close.
If you really want to do wacom-like drawing on a tablet, check out the Samsung Note 10.1..it works really well...
Good luck!
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