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Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

i'm a fan of chicken head knobs

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Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

fun fact: one of my first design jobs was designing stereo knobs. did you know that the little indicator line is called the vein?

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

That was a corporate job. I wasn't always a professor

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

echinopsis posted:

i want a big meaty knob

so much mass that it literally takes considerable force just to start it rotating from rest

Oh that reminds me I have a handwheel from an old lathe we decommissioned that I am planning to put into...something. it is polished cast iron and weighs a good 10 lb and has a handle and everything



Trivial to make it a computer input with just a rotary encoder and an arduino but idk what to use it for

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

fart simpson posted:

switching between virtual desktops? the current zoom setting in firefox?

i need to use it for something where you want a lot of inertia and very fine control. if i were a video editor it might be perfect for that but i'm not. maybe just a scroll wheel, but with pixel precision


President Beep posted:

not a knob. please do better.

you don't know how big my hands are

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