[KwartzLab] Laser-cuttable "screen protector" material for capacitive touchscreens?

[Mark Pitcher]

I was playing with capacitive buttons last year, and they worked through
all types of plastics. You can get cast acrylic sheets as thin as .6mm.


On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 12:01 PM, JR Nelson <jrnelson at studiojrn.com> wrote:

> How thin are you willing to have this material be? Any number of plastics
> would still let the capacitive screen register touch; it's when you get too
> thick that you start having issues.
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Darcy Casselman <dscassel at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I'm still toying with whether this is a workable idea at all.
>>
>> But right now I'm toying with the idea of getting a Nexus 10, stuffing
>> it behind a sheet of this hypothetical material that I've got to fit
>> inside a larger enclosure.
>>
>> Darcy.
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Bob DeGregory <bob.degregory at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Darcy,
>> >
>> > Capacitive touchscreen actually covers a number of design approaches at
>> the
>> > component level
>> >
>> > Do you have a specific component or integrated assembly in mind?
>> >
>> > You can purchase material which claims to work as protection (primarily
>> > scratch protection) for touch screens in a variety of sizes and "device"
>> > compatability, but the engineering parameters involved in answering your
>> > specific question cannot be accurately determined from the information
>> at
>> > hand.
>> >
>> > On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Darcy Casselman <dscassel at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Is there such a thing? I want to build a seamless frame for a
>> >> touchscreen device.
>> >>
>> >> Can I put a sheet of material (that I've cut on the laser) over a
>> >> touchscreen and still have the touchscreen work?
>> >>
>> >> Darcy.
>> >>
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