[Lab] How to set a clock

[Richard Sloan]

then you need to memorize the colors as you spin the encoder.... holding
and clicking one switch, you do not need to know the colors, you can learn
them later.... :-)

R.

On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 8:48 PM, Andrew O'Malley <aomalley at gmail.com> wrote:

> I agree w/ the encoder: most intuitive for the end user.  Uses a few more
> inputs than a switch but there are decent libraries for the Arduino.
>
>
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>> Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 13:01:03 -0400
>> From: Raj <modlab at raj.homelinux.com>
>> To: Darcy Whyte <darcy at inventorartist.com>
>> Cc: lab <lab at artengine.ca>
>> Subject: Re: [Lab] How to set a clock
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>> I've always marvelled at the simplicity of the old mechanical watch
>> setting
>> knob - pull it out, adjust (with excellent visual feedback and good
>> control
>> over ability to move quickly to an hour and then fine-tune the minutes)
>> and
>> then push it back, done.  It boggles my mind how we went from there to the
>> horrendous buttons, switches and complicated setting sequences for digital
>> watches.  Been toying with the idea of creating a clock with a single
>> rotary encoder to see if I can emulate the intuitive feel of a mechnical
>> knob.. push in the encoder, rotate it to set the time - backwards or
>> forwards, rotate quickly to move the time faster with an exponential
>> rather
>> than linear correlation to speed of rotation).  Feel free to steal this
>> idea if it works for you with the only caveat that I get to see the code
>> :)
>>
>> cheers!
>> --Raj.
>>
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