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GaryG ·
it was lunchtime, i was bored... 😀
etchasketch
I was thinking about multiturn knobs (for some reason...) and this was the first thing I thought of that uses them. Basically, I realised you could feed any angle into the rotation part of a knob and SM could cope with it. So I fed the min/max output back into the knobs graphic module (long handed, couldn't get a wireless link to work... 😕) and, voila, multiturn knob.
Obviously it could be refined immensely (number of turns, cool vernier dial gfx etc...) Shift still works if you want to fine tune your graphic masterpiece.
Now, what I really need to do is figure out how to connect another trackball for authentic etchasketch diagonals... 😉
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rlahalla ·
rock and roll gary!! I'ma go play with this in a few! 😀
oddson ·
Very cool...
One minor problem; your shake mechanism doesn't work for anyone but you because you're getting the schematic to reload the bitmap... which of course we don't have on our computers. 😉
You need a bitmap sample and hold in between the load and draw components.
GaryG ·
good call, oddson.
as i said this was literally a half hour hack (you can probably tell from the osm... 🙂) so not exhaustively tested...
i'll update it when i get the chance. not sure the movement of the knobs is right either...
Obviously this was just a bit of fun but it sort of demonstrates another aspect of SM; how easy/quickly you can develop little graphic apps etc. I couldn't possibly code this at all, never mind within half an hour but there it is, a (nearly) functional graphic toy knocked up in a lunchtime.
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doug4350 ·
Probably < a days worth of coding @ the Win32 level. That's just the "sketch" part w/out the animated frame. It might be less in c++, but that's not my turf...
It reminds me of that dilbert cartoon where they gave an etch-a-sketch to their manager making him think it was a laptop 😀 To reboot, he had to turn it upside-down and shake it 😀 . That was a good one...
Aloha,
Doug
20081225 ·
I liked it, dude! Simple and effective. Nice drawing tool!
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