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I wanted to make a different sort of calculator and I also wanted to show this set of stacked knobs I came up with. So here it is...the Knob Calculator.
The inner knobs (green) are the coarse adjustment while the outer knobs (blue) are the fine adjustment.
Click on the operator (plus,minus,times, divide) to change it. Results are calculated continuously.
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cool.for the title you used a copperplate gothic,i love copperplate gothics and BankGothics
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Did I? I know very little about fonts...I just picked one that looked "right". I do like the Copperplate Gothic though, so round and solid!
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I'm sorry to say, my computer doesn't have Quicksilver :(
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Just found Quicksilver on the web. Very cool!
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wow that's good even the negatives do it!!!
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Awesome!!!
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hi paddle. i just completed a logo for my upcoming games to see wat u link (link to project) if u dont want a link on your project u can delete my commment. i dont want to spam but i want u to see it. i think its pretty coool.
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spam really good projects. What's a good project if it gets no views?
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wow! nice caculator! Thids is cool. yeah everyone is right good idea and creativity!!
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Yeah Great Idea man Good creativity!!
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nice idea. It reminds me of those combination lock bank vaults/safes.
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(link to project) i just completeed a very realistic aerial attack game. please view and give ur thoughts on how to improve or just keep it the wa it is. (very cool calculator. i have one but it never really worked that great :()
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:) wao, you have a very wide imagination :)
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this is what came of it (link to project)
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ive always wondered how you make the knob thing.Can i use it?
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Sure!
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wow creative!
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very creative
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teriffic
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Very original, indeed. I agree with the comparisons already made here and I would like to add another one: do you remember the calculators with a sided handle which we turn back and forward to subtract and add, with type writer keys to shift the numbers? Well, with knobs it would be much more friendly to operate.
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Paddle2See, you've done it again!
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plz look at bounce blocks 1
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cool I made a calculator too
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I think I know what the e means if u get the number too big :)
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You managed to make the number big enough that it had to go to exponential notation? Man, you must have been cranking for a while!
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and im'a buy a real one for school tomorrow!
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wow this is coll! its a really good idea, with the knobs, better than anything else. i have thougt of making a calculator before, and maybe now i'll do it! =)
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Calculators are fun...it's a good exercise to try to come up with one that works the way you want it to!
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What a neat user-interface. I've got an old mechanical kitchen scale that works like this.
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Thant's interesting...what are you controlling with the knob on the kitchen scale? Matching the weight with a balance of some sort?
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lol. really nice. reminds me of those old oscilloscopes where you had a fine knob and a course knob.
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I used to have one of those! Maybe where I got the idea. I was hoping to really give it an antique look with knurled brass knobs or maybe bakelite. But I couldn't find any good free images.
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this is so cool i think its very fun and helpful (I am not doing my math homework infront of the computer) I think that you could of made it that when you use the arrow keys to change the number for one of them would be up and down the other would be right and left!
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That's another interesting idea! It's kind of slow getting to bigger numbers using arrow keys though. Or if you make it faster, then it's hard to hit the number exactly. So I thought a set of knobs, with crude and fine control might work better. Try them for a little while and see what you think!
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Good Job! Very creative and fun to use. I like it!
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The most creative calculator on Scratch since Addzero's combobox one. Reminds me of a microscope focus knob, although Apple will probably come after you for copying the click wheel!
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Thanks! Tell Apple that I've never even seen their click wheel (I've got a Zune). I modeled this after a tuner on an antique radio (tubes!) I had many years ago. I do agree with Apple that virtual knobs have a lot of potential as an input device!
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interesting. this reminds me of like a combination lock. good job, i love it. ps im gonna nominate this to get featured
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Thanks! A virtual combination lock would be kind of interesting...keeping track of the turns left and right and all that.
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its good but you should make a locker combination practicer with it that would be cool
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That's a really interesting idea! Those things were hard to use as I recall...you have to go past the first number in a clockwise direction, then backwards to the second number, then directly to the third. Or something like that. I'll have to give that one some thought.
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