We’re ready to order parts to test our rotation mechanism. The picture above shows the rotation mechanism on the back of a Cintiq Pro 32. It took a lot of refinement to achieve our design goals: Make it thin. When a XOOT system rotates the drawing screen to desk level the keyboard and…
Post SIGGRAPH: After getting back from SIGGRAPH I thought, screen rotation will be easy… “Just use a big roller bearing behind the screen and add a electromagnetic braking to control the spinning. Boom, Problem Solved!” Well…. It turns out making a ‘good’ design is a little more complicated. Usability The initial plan of using touch strips…