Show HN: Sketch, connect and simulate gears and chains

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Post by frankl » Wed, Jul 31, 2013, 2:15 PM UTC

Show HN: Sketch, connect and simulate gears and chains
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Re: Show HN: Sketch, connect and simulate gears and chains

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Post by bockris » Wed, Jul 31, 2013, 2:39 PM UTC

I don't have my tablet with me but I'm eager to try it. Have you tested on Android?

Re: Show HN: Sketch, connect and simulate gears and chains

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Post by frankl » Wed, Jul 31, 2013, 2:45 PM UTC

bockris wrote: post #2

I don't have my tablet with me but I'm eager to try it. Have you tested on Android?

I tested it on my 2010 android phone and it just barely works on that. More recent android tablets should be able to run it quite smoothly.

Re: Show HN: Sketch, connect and simulate gears and chains

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Post by xutopia » Wed, Jul 31, 2013, 2:51 PM UTC

bockris wrote: post #2

I don't have my tablet with me but I'm eager to try it. Have you tested on Android?

I just tried it on Chrome on desktop and it is usable. I think the touch just makes the experience better.

Re: Show HN: Sketch, connect and simulate gears and chains

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Post by jawerty » Wed, Jul 31, 2013, 2:52 PM UTC

This is really cool. I could definitely use something like this when testing gear functionality on a bot I'm making.

Re: Show HN: Sketch, connect and simulate gears and chains

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Post by bockris » Wed, Jul 31, 2013, 3:02 PM UTC

frankl wrote: post #3

bockris wrote: post #2

I don't have my tablet with me but I'm eager to try it. Have you tested on Android?

I tested it on my 2010 android phone and it just barely works on that. More recent android tablets should be able to run it quite smoothly.

I've played a bit on my desktop browser and it's fun! Can't wait to show it to my kids. I've looked for similar things a long time ago and only found Java apps/applets. I like that this is browser based.

Do you have a TODO features list? I don't know Coffeescript but this would be a good learning experience for me. I can think of at least one feature I would like to add.

Re: Show HN: Sketch, connect and simulate gears and chains

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Post by nicpottier » Wed, Jul 31, 2013, 3:04 PM UTC

Really enjoy the different take on the interface.. feel like you might be missing something in having modality though, seems like you could combine the actions for drawing a gear and drawing a belt, which would make it a bit neater.

Any plans to add more complicated gear types? Would love to see something like this enabling easy explanations of watches and the like..

Re: Show HN: Sketch, connect and simulate gears and chains

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Post by canthonytucci » Wed, Jul 31, 2013, 3:09 PM UTC

This is cool but I'm learning quite quickly that I'm no good at drawing circles with my mouse, perhaps a bit more forgivness when using the gear drawing tool might make life a bit easier?

Overall I'm impressed.

Re: Show HN: Sketch, connect and simulate gears and chains

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Post by milesokeefe » Wed, Jul 31, 2013, 3:18 PM UTC

Very good experience on the latest iPad. I wish there was a way to delete gears though.

Also having the play button toggle pause/play would be nice.

Re: Show HN: Sketch, connect and simulate gears and chains

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Post by Sunlis » Wed, Jul 31, 2013, 3:22 PM UTC

milesokeefe wrote: post #9

Very good experience on the latest iPad. I wish there was a way to delete gears though. Also having the play button toggle pause/play would be nice.

Drawing a slash through a gear seems to delete it. I'm not sure whether or not that is intentional