[NTLK] FoFa - 5th followup

Tere tjggriffin1 at gmail.com
Tue May 26 10:21:22 EDT 2020


Is it electronic? Is it for a Newton? Cheers!

On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 5:47 AM NewtonTalk <newtontalk at pda-soft.de> wrote:

> > Other hints: Several prototypes, costing $$$, failure, then success,
> potentially salable
>
> Yep...
>
> > Simply stylus for Newton in different colors
>
> Nope...
>
> > the "Newton USB Dongle" is now available in many colors!
>
> It will be, once it's finished. However, there are some issues left to be
> resolved. For example, the Interconnect port in the Newton 2x00 family is
> kind of fragile, so you don't want to slide a dongle in while it's tilted.
> I
> would like to design the case in a way that it can simply be slid on the
> tabletop right into the Newton's port, provided the Newton sits on the same
> tabletop. I'm afraid I'll need a little practice until I can create a 3D
> model that is actually correct, and since having lots of wrong case
> prototypes manufactured elsewhere is too expensive, I'll need a 3D printer
> of my own before this project can leave the prototype state.
>
> > The first pic has to be light passing through a prism.
>
> Nope...
>
> > The second pic is still unfamiliar to me, but it appears to be gold.
>
> Nope...
>
> > The third pic appears to be a rainbow stack of construction paper
>
> Yep...
>
> > likely used for the lovely peacock art piece shown in the fourth clue
>
> Yep...
>
> > Frank has developed some type of spectrophotometer for the Newton
> platform
>
> Nope...
>
> Here's a little hint. The article you're looking for consists of four
> parts.
> The new image shows one of them in full.
>
>     <https://www.pda-soft.de/scratch/WhatIsThis/WhatIsThis06.png>
>
> And here are the images you already know, just for convenience's sake.
>
>    <https://www.pda-soft.de/scratch/WhatIsThis/WhatIsThis05.png>
>    <https://www.pda-soft.de/scratch/WhatIsThis/WhatIsThis04.png>
>    <https://www.pda-soft.de/scratch/WhatIsThis/WhatIsThis03.png>
>    <https://www.pda-soft.de/scratch/WhatIsThis/WhatIsThis02.png>
>    <https://www.pda-soft.de/scratch/WhatIsThis/WhatIsThis01.png>
>
> Good luck!
>
> Frank
>
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>
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