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Apr 13, 2017 at 12:32 history edited CommunityBot
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Oct 25, 2015 at 14:23 vote accept Evgeni
Oct 22, 2015 at 11:24 comment added Dmitry Grigoryev Anyhow, providing contact with your body can only improve the touch capabilities of the stick, and maybe this improvement will make your tip work. Perhaps you should ask someone to hold your stick in a hand and touch the screen with your tip (chances are you already tried and it didn't work, in that case I can only advise you to get a proper measurement of the resistance between your tip and the rest of the stick)
Oct 22, 2015 at 11:11 comment added Evgeni iPhone is indeed harder to get to notice a non-finger object. A spoon (insulated from the hand) is not registered by an iPhone while it works with various Android smartphones. And the stick itself is not that small (see photo in linked question) so it is registered by the same Android devices
Oct 22, 2015 at 9:56 comment added Dmitry Grigoryev I'm surprised to hear that the metal stick has sufficient capacitance by itself. According to this answer small objects (like a carrot or a conductive stylus) don't produce an effect on iPhone touchscreen unless grounded or held by humans (with skin contact).
Oct 22, 2015 at 9:33 comment added Evgeni I accounted for the fact that there is no conductive path between the stick and my skin, and tested if the capacitance of the stick itself is sufficient. It appears to be so, because it is possible to touch the screen with the bare metal of the stick which will produce an appropriate reaction.
Oct 21, 2015 at 14:36 history edited Dmitry Grigoryev CC BY-SA 3.0
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Oct 21, 2015 at 13:59 history edited Dmitry Grigoryev CC BY-SA 3.0
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Oct 21, 2015 at 13:54 history answered Dmitry Grigoryev CC BY-SA 3.0