alt Hacker NewsHas it actually reached properly functional state?
The showcase video didn't look very convincing and neither website nor the discord channel contained a lot more information. Although I didn't dig through discord history too carefully.
It's one thing to hook up 200 hall effect sensors to a MCU, and read few of them or send data over HID at 8000Hz. It's different thing to read all 200 at 8000Hz and figure out the position with reasonable resolution and accuracy.
Can it also detect the exact moment pen touches tablet or additional button clicks? Or does it require taping keyboard with other hand? Which is probably fine for OSU, but less so for drawing.
Regarding the last point, pompyboard is very much a tablet or pointing device meant only for enthusiast osu! players from what I understand. No artist in the world needs a 8KHz polling rate tablet let alone 1KHz. Tablets from other brands are much better suited for drawing. While the basic idea of a rectangle you put a pen on is the same for artists and osu! players, the more detailed requirements are basically opposites
Basically:
- Pen click is useless for osu! or can just be digital, while artists would want analog pressure
- Buttons on a pen are actively detrimental for osu! but very useful for artists
- Smoothing on a tablet is more detrimental for osu! the more of it there is but absolutely necessary for artists
- High polling rate is useless for artists (they would have input delay due to the smoothing they need either way) but very useful for osu!
- Big tablets are useless for osu! players as they typically only use a 5-15cm area while they are very useful for artists
I think the entire point of something like pompyboard is to make a tablet just for osu!, which doesn’t exist right now. Meanwhile for artists there is already a whole industry of tablets available for them