hi there,

This is just a knob - a virtual one, made using Inkscape.

I have used instruments in laboratories like oscilloscopes and function generators and played with them for significant part of my life so far.

With the rise of Human Machine Interfaces, there is still a unfilled necessity of a good widget library that could satisfy the requirements for engineers of instrumentation, communication, students, researchers, who would like to keep their hands dirty :).

I have long been thinking about an alternative for proprietary software tools which target these scientifically rich community. One must see, that a set of research community needs instruments with essential controls and output interfaces. When these proprietary tools offer such a convenience as a packages, these morons are sincerely ignorant their liberty - even with their scientific temper - could not think straight, fell for mumbo jumbo marketing, agreeing the terms and conditions, purchase em out of peoples hard earned tax money & promote these packages.

Sincerely, i do not know what these "scientists" and their "engineers & interns" are capable of doing, while they cannot create stuff for their own requirements, and propagate its process of creation & its use among their peers in the community.

Being said that, i know that it is also a significant part of them who do support and accelerate open access, free(not free of cost! i.e, free as in liberty/freedom) systems, information dissemination by design, collaboration - and have created significant contributions in the fields like, geosciences, operating systems, mathematics, computation and simulation systems. Honestly, when i learn about them, i feel so so so awesome.

With the shift towards open technologies, symbiotic networks between disciplines - still not much contribution towards satisfying the needs of such community. It has to be not only for the such people alone but for commons in common. I am not saying that it has to be pushed as institutionalized policies and establishing mechanisms, but some emergence has to be built upon. Not all of us are programmers, designers, researchers... still, necessity is necessity, we shall not make it the slightest mistake to honour it as elitist luxury resource - that could be accessed by heavily funded and moron minded scientists & engineers - who are no better than clergymen.

In such a path of emerging contribution, i consider this tiny teeny project is a small contribution towards it.

I must thank :

Aaron Nieze for his simple and nice tutorial on Tachometer.

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/ \     | Bro, control your mind, its not even funny ! |
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   		   +----------------------------------------------+---- ( me )
  		   | Yea, its rough, i will regain the tract back |
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So, here is the Knob...

As you see it nicely fits and matches this light grey background.... ! Imagine the same kind of stuff, that can fit a particular projects needs, like sliders, graphs & plots - it will really look "geeky"... you know what i mean ??

I have made this knob, with impetus of using this passive svg's to use as a widget in the widget collection library by using the svg straitly or atleast reuse the design flow in the vala code for GTK-GNOME based applications. Moreover, i desire to have a really good technical widget collection with GNOME stack.

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/.\ ----+----------------------------------------------+
/ \     | You moron, afaik, you sit and procrastinate, |
  	| why  whine ?				       |
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   		   +----------------------------------------------+---- ( me )
  		   | U know what ? i am planning to delete U soon |
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Now, how did i draw that stuff in Inkscape ???

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/.\ ----+-----------------------------------------------+
/ \     | Yo, beware this fool has not shown every step |
  	| of the process... be sure to access the       |
  	| resources below !			        |
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		+-----------------------------------------------+---- ( me )
	   	| Imbecile, i dont want to fill this page with  |
		| all microsteps involved, let em take the file |
		| and play with it.... !			|
		| i am lazy and i am not a fucking tutor...	|
		| i just share share stuff... a fellow sharer ! |
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			+---------------------------------------+---- ( me )
	   		| Readers, sorry for being rude..... :) |
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Ummm.. people, i believe that the raw svg file can be used with some animation library that recognizes svg objects... for example :

• Snap svg library
• Cairo graphics library

READINGS, LINKS & DOWNLOADS :

1. Knob know how detail file

CREDITS & ATTRIBUTIONS :

• Guide(s) / Tutorial(s):
  • Aaron Nieze Tachometer walk through.