The Usefulness of Things Discarded
A year or so I lost a dear companion, my Wacom 20WSX graphics tablet. Because I didn’t have the ~$1000 to fix it, or the ~$2500 to replace it, I ended up getting the Ugee® UG-2150 for a fraction of that. My biggest problem with my newish Ugee Graphics tablet (other than the terrible cable management and periodic driver failure when I need it to work the most) is the lack of pivot that my old, beautiful, dearly departed Wacom could do. As you can see from the pic to the side, it only tilts up and down. This makes it a bit frustrating to draw odd angles. I’ve been trying to figure out a way to get this damned Ugee tablet to pivot for the year or so that I’ve had it.
I remember as a kid, I’d be helping my father with something, or rather I’d fetch him tools while I watched him work on things, and he’d often pick up a piece of something unrecognizable and say “This may be useful for something”. As with many things, I now do the same thing. Towards the end of my latest Visual Storytelling Class at AS220 I kept seeing this little bit of plastic calling to me. According to the folks there, it was from the end of a roll of plotter paper and was basically trash. I saw something else, what I saw was that “this may be useful for something”.
Right off the bat I was happy that the raised section of the plastic piece fit perfectly in my old Wacom stand. On top of that, it fastened to the back of the Ugee with out any real modification.
This fix nearly works, and as a first try, proof of concept it completely surpassed my expectations. It sits a bit high on the desk and I’ll need to make a slip gasket out of something to make it smoother. I’ll also have to deal with the cabling but that seems like less of a problem than I thought it would.
