Algodoo

Why not just add these to your "PenDisk RW" scene instead of creating a new scene? That way you would keep the reader and all accessories (such as extra disks) in one place.

How is WHAT possible?

It DID fall!

daniel123cat -- I would estimate it to be more like an order of magnitude smarter.

s_noonan -- Unless I'm not using it correctly, this position locator doesn't seem to be working correctly. I drag it around as directed, then when I click the GO button it always returns to the origin [0.0,0.0].

This is NOT a true spring engine. All you did was put a motor in the middle of the circle and THAT motor is what drives your engine. In a true spring engine, the SPRINGS are what drives the engine and give it power.

You should learn how to properly do something before you try teaching it to others.

Observations:

First the good news: Having detailed instructions made a huge difference. Nice work.

Now the not-so-good-news:
1. When Algodoo is Paused (Edit mode), it often requires two presses of the GO button. In Run mode, it works correctly (one press).
2. I think your notes should say something about the entered X and Y pos values must be in the correct format including square brackets and comma.
3. While the widget is fixed at a location, the x/y readout at the bottom of the widget keeps changing while the cursor is moved around the scene.
4. Your Notes #2 has a typo: "simulation"

It gets worse: The widget goes to a different x/y pos depending on what part of the GO button gets clicked! It seems to be cursor-location dependent.

Quote: "I figured it was close enough. I may fix that."

OMG! I never in my wildest dreams thought that s_noonan would make a statement like that!

It gets better with each update. Nice work, as usual.

Exactly! Those annoying outliers can be frustrating to find especially when they are far, far away in another universe!

Askuba? Asbuka? HUH?

Suggestion: Instead of uploading bits and pieces of a scene, why now wait until you have the finished product ready to post?

Also, scenes like this one are considered "announcements" or "sneak previews" and those kinds of scenes are not allowed on Algobox.

Thanks

Xray, Algodoo Admin

WHAT? I cannot help you or give you suggestions if your comments and questions make no sense.


Here is a fairly good and simple tutorial. There are actually about 7 or 8 scenes on how to build a spring engine. This is one of them:

SPRING ENGINE

There are only 510 objects in this scene. Not 2500!

Very clever! I don't think anyone has ever done that before.

Thank you!

Yup... The pole works. Test complete.

Wow... You da man!

Good job. Now tell your family you'll be working 18 hours a day and 6 days a week grinding metal rods. If you still do a good job after 6 months, the company might decide to pay you a salary. Still interested?

After playing this scene, I got a strange craving for a hamburger.

MrPigeon -- Good questions. I actually thought about making this scene while I was grinding a metal rod in my garage. You are correct about the edges needing to be de-burred and made smooth after grinding, but Algodoo scenes do not reflect the real world. We can do whatever we want to and get away with it as long as it doesn't violate the Rules!

42flowermaster -- HUH?

Yup, much better!

Wow, you must have spent MANY MANY hours on this scene! Nicely done!

My "other" similar-sounding spreadsheet app has many more cells (rows and columns) than this one. So how can I increase the number of cells?

The cartridge is stuck inside that enclosure. I had to delete the enclosure in order to load the cartridge into the gun. Surely you can come up with a more user-friendly way of doing that!

Okay, I'm glad that I held off uninstalling my "other" spreadsheet app!

I don't get it. How do I know when it's "the best moment"?

I googled "Cyno Republic" and that amazing source of all knowledge was not able to find anything except for a character named Cyno in a video game! Is that what this is about?

This is a series of indexers known as "Geneva Drives" (well, sort of). The output of one drive is the input of the next one (from left to right). As the number of drives in a series increases, it requires many more indexes from the first drive in order for the last drive to index. This is in a way like a gear reducer, except that instead of reducing rotations, it reduces the index rate.


I like your "Something Unuseful" series. Some of them are really cool and fun to play with.