WP8060U!

October 23, 2008

It was relatively very trivial to get the Genius MousePen 8″x6″ tablet working with Linux. Google gave me a result from the Ubuntu Wiki. The driver built with no trouble and it worked.

Well, that’s because I checked up on google before buying the hardware and favoured a Genius MousePen over some iBall foo because it had a (“sureshot”) Linux driver. :D

The tablet works pretty well, but there are some problems. It’s hard to use it as a general purpose mouse, but it works correctly when it comes to dragging, which means it works well for drawing and writing.

I found a software called xournal [Grr... it is a GTK app] in my APT cache. So I just did apt-get install xournal and I could comfortably write down stuff and export to PDF!

Today, I saw if I could actually draw with it. Being the terrible artist (I used to hate drawing at school), I ended up “tracing” this from a photograph of mine. So this is v1.0:

Cartoonized!

Cartoonized!

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5 Comments Add your own

  • 1. Akarsh Simha  |  October 23, 2008 at 6:13 pm

    Wow! The left ear has no auditory canal! :P
    Need to fix that.

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  • 2. Kartik Mistry  |  October 24, 2008 at 11:50 pm

    How much this device costs?

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  • 3. Siddharth  |  October 25, 2008 at 3:43 pm

    I also want to buy this cool gadget.. I was thinking to buy one tablet pc,, but this seems to be a better solution.

    Where did u buy this device and how much did it cost?

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  • 4. arunchaganty  |  October 26, 2008 at 11:35 pm

    Awesome! That picture really portrays you well. I think the missing auditory canal is a suggestive unconcious message ;-) .

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  • 5. Akarsh Simha  |  November 14, 2008 at 9:37 pm

    @arunchaganty: You deserve a kick

    @Kartik/Siddharth: This thing costs 4.5 K INR, apparently.

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