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Glow in the Calc
« on: November 27, 2009, 12:30:06 pm »
This is just an idea but..
I see a lot of people wanting to get LEDs or ELs in their calc, to have a back light. This turns out to be hard to assemble in many cases (which sometimes results in complete calc-messups) AND drains your battery level like a cruel monster.

So, I was thinking (already a while ago, I just post it now) why not use something like this? http://www.nadco-inc.com/glowindark.html
1 It's free energy, so it doesn't use your batteries
2 It can give light for up to 8 hours (make it 4 hours decent light )
3 I think it would be eeeaasy to assemble

Why? Well, last time I was screwing around with a calc (simple + - / * thingy) I learned that the output gets displayed on the glass/plastic plate ( in the case of the calc I was peeking in, it was glass).

Furthermore, the backplate of the screen (the grey-metalish plate thingy) was loose from the glass plate, which allowed me to simply cut some paper in the right size, paste it in, and voila, the display was black on white, which looked a lot better and clearer than before. I don't get why they don't make all those plates white, it's waay more clear. You actually get the screen quality of an emulator this way.

Anyways, IF the backplate of a TI screen is also separate(able), you could place a piece of glow-paper between it and, yh, there you'd have your own backlighted calc, with not too much of a hassle to assemble, and not draining your batteries...


Quick made drawing to clarify the idea (it's paint-crap)


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Re: Glow in the Calc
« Reply #1 on: November 27, 2009, 12:35:31 pm »
hmm nice pic

and yes it could work i suppose but you would need to make sure that the foil is clear or you would make it glow but not be able to see the screen




side note y not just make a app that sends constant juice at a low voltage to a like reading lamp structure sticking out of the connection port
one crismas light or low pwer led should be all thats nedded

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Re: Glow in the Calc
« Reply #2 on: November 27, 2009, 12:42:03 pm »
how do you mean? the foil is placed behind the display, so the output would always be seeable :]

about the lamp thing. A christmas light already uses 'much' energy to be bright enough, dunno if the I/O could handle that, and it would use some battery power. It might be doable with a led but idunno it handy tho. At least, I didn't rly like the lamp-things they were selling with the old GBC's.
EDIT: if you would need to run an app for light, you wouldn't be able to run anything else at the same moment?

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Re: Glow in the Calc
« Reply #3 on: November 27, 2009, 12:50:18 pm »
it would have to be a hook type thing and it would be much more reason able with a low power led

yeah i guess that could work hmm dont want to dismatle my ti 84 to find out though XD

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Re: Glow in the Calc
« Reply #4 on: November 27, 2009, 12:53:52 pm »
neither do I atm, I'm going to buy an extra one for about 25 tho, so I might screw a bit with that one
Anyway, people have screwed so much with them, someone should know if the 2 plates are separate or not

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Re: Glow in the Calc
« Reply #5 on: November 27, 2009, 12:57:14 pm »

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Re: Glow in the Calc
« Reply #6 on: November 27, 2009, 01:11:02 pm »
Hmm, this (or the white paper) I could see myself doing.  It depends if I can find a cheap calc and decide that I'm good enough to not mess anything up.

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Re: Glow in the Calc
« Reply #7 on: November 27, 2009, 01:49:48 pm »
well, it seems like you only have to screw your calc open, pull your disp a bit back, use ether-ish fluid (that does not screw plastic) to separate the transparant piece from the metal, cut a piece of glow-in-the-dark-tape/paper, put it between the 2 plates, close everything and done O:
+ remove batteries before working and ground yourself before you start working, just like when working with any other computer device ;]
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Re: Glow in the Calc
« Reply #8 on: November 27, 2009, 05:50:44 pm »
mhmm interesting...

I wonder if this is scam or legit, though, we never know with websites

Else, another thing you can do is this :D

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Re: Glow in the Calc
« Reply #9 on: November 27, 2009, 06:36:42 pm »
lol, That's fake right?

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Re: Glow in the Calc
« Reply #10 on: November 27, 2009, 06:39:51 pm »
Of course, but it was still kinda funny back then :P

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Re: Glow in the Calc
« Reply #11 on: November 27, 2009, 06:49:51 pm »
no thanks, i'm happy with 2 arms
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Re: Glow in the Calc
« Reply #12 on: November 27, 2009, 08:41:17 pm »
yeah it is fake hence the red outline signaling joke but imagine doing that to a ti-84 that would be epic

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Re: Glow in the Calc
« Reply #13 on: November 28, 2009, 07:21:00 am »
it would most likely just screw any magnetic part of your calc, then melt it, let the time battery explode and let you die in 7 days, when you eventually will have a grey* skin, no hair, no nails and maybe not even eyes...

*lol, you would be in greyscale
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Re: Glow in the Calc
« Reply #14 on: November 28, 2009, 06:47:25 pm »
*lol, you would be in greyscale
lol, that's funny!  ::)