NewtonTalk.net March 2009 archive: Re: [NTLK] Newton Hardware De

From: <Reilly001os_at_aol.com>
Date: Sun Mar 29 2009 - 13:38:23 EDT

I thought the same thing (front light) after the take of backlighting started. What made me think of front lighting was the afterburner kits for the first gameboy advance. That unit was only designed to use ambient light too and the solution that was the best was to front light it. I'm not sure if a similar option could be worked for the Newton, I did an afterburner kit once and it used some sorta film on the display and a hard plastic sheet with the lights at one end. Not sure what the film was, but if you didn't put it on the display before the frontlight unit the lighting would bleach the picture.
Joe Reilly
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From: M. Horvat
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Sent: Mar 28, 2009 05:30

Actually, I thought of making an external "backlight" (actually frontlight) for the MP110/120 exactly one day before you said you wanted to have a backlight on it. But I'm not going to accuse you of plagiarism. :)

-Matej Horvat

--- On Fri, 3/27/09, Ryan Vetter wrote:
> If anyone wants to join the OMP or MP 100 backlight project, I
> can send you a username and password and give you access to
> the project site. All of our research, including a message
> board with a task list and files is located there.

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