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Title: Fans of the Griffin Powermate have you seen the Senic Flow?
Post by: atlas3686 on Fri, 28 November 2014, 02:50:27
(https://images.indiegogo.com/file_attachments/1016137/files/20141114185544-functionalities.gif?1416020144)

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/flow-an-intuitive-precise-wireless-controller (https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/flow-an-intuitive-precise-wireless-controller)

Looks pretty great, what do you guys think?
Title: Re: Fans of the Griffin Powermate have you seen the Senic Flow?
Post by: jacobolus on Fri, 28 November 2014, 05:05:24
So wait, does this thing have a knob that actually turns, or is it just capsense / infrared camera? It says: “sensors: 360° angular positioning, capacitive touch, infrared based hand gesture recognition, luminosity”. How does the angle sensor work and what’s it for? It looked to me like to spin the knob part there wasn’t actually anything physically moving, but it’s hard to tell from their video.

Anyway, I’ll wait to see one of these until offering a judgment, but I’d be most concerned about latency, gesture sensing accuracy, and ease of configuraiton.

Always glad to see more people building HCI hardware experiments regardless.

I’d love to see someone do a review vs. really nice existing knobs.
Title: Re: Fans of the Griffin Powermate have you seen the Senic Flow?
Post by: atlas3686 on Fri, 28 November 2014, 09:54:46
Agreed I have many of the same concerns, was thinking of getting one but probably worth waiting. It does look like the knob actually turns, they have a demo of it with photoshop which looks pretty slick. This basically strikes me as a griffin Powermate mixed with a simpler leap motion.
Title: Re: Fans of the Griffin Powermate have you seen the Senic Flow?
Post by: bueller on Fri, 28 November 2014, 11:27:33
This could be a cool project to tackle DIY. Bluefruit EZ Key + rotary  encoder + big knob = $50ish

Wouldn't have the motion sensing but would be a pretty cool little bluetooth rotary knob.
Title: Re: Fans of the Griffin Powermate have you seen the Senic Flow?
Post by: jacobolus on Fri, 28 November 2014, 15:50:49
Quote from: bueller on Fri, 28 November 2014, 11:27:33
This could be a cool project to tackle DIY. Bluefruit EZ Key + rotary  encoder + big knob = $50ish

Wouldn't have the motion sensing but would be a pretty cool little bluetooth rotary knob.
Yep, totally agree. Though very nice precise rotary encoders / potentiometers (this project claims their knob turning feature is ~1000 counts/turn) can get pretty pricey.
Title: Re: Fans of the Griffin Powermate have you seen the Senic Flow?
Post by: bueller on Fri, 28 November 2014, 22:18:43
Quote from: jacobolus on Fri, 28 November 2014, 15:50:49
Quote from: bueller on Fri, 28 November 2014, 11:27:33
This could be a cool project to tackle DIY. Bluefruit EZ Key + rotary  encoder + big knob = $50ish

Wouldn't have the motion sensing but would be a pretty cool little bluetooth rotary knob.
Yep, totally agree. Though very nice precise rotary encoders / potentiometers (this project claims their knob turning feature is ~1000 counts/turn) can get pretty pricey.
Yeah i'm a bit frustrated right now, I remember seeing a 128 pulse encoder on adafruit for like $25 a while ago but it seems like they no longer stock it.