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A button is mounted beside a small screen. On pressing the button, the screen displays the time duration since the previous button press.
The screen should be some kind of e-ink display so that the previous result is preserved until the next press.
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I think this would be very useful for determining the elapsed time since the last pressing of such a button - well done. - reward: one crumb + |
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How long will it take him to push the button? The shiny, candy-like button!? |
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I always thought this was one of my best postings on the half bakery. [link] |
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[+] Only if there is a permanent log of button-pressing intervals and durations. An accidental accretion of data for public admiration. |
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I kind of liked the way the previous reading was destroyed once you pressed to see the current reading. |
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Replaced in the display but forever a part of the Akashic record. |
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+ especially if the screen is on the face of the button. Tremedously useful for watering plants, feeding fish, sterilising the baby's bottle, turning the matress... |
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No - wait - it wouldn't work for those things. It would need another mode - a double-click ? - to reset the reference time... |
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[Vaqui] THere are many possible "modes" for such a device, including a large-screen dashboard model which displays: current (continuously incrementing) time since last press, duration between last press and the one before, force of last press (N), duration of last press (time between pressing and releasing), and a graphical display showing these figures aggregated over time, plus high score table (longest press, shortest press, longest elapsed time, shortest elapsed time, etc.) |
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Another possible mode is to have an active display which only lights up when the button is held down, and which only shows the result of "time since last press"; the display going blank when the button is released. |
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Other options are online data-logging enabling all metrics to be accessed remotely. Also a mechanical finger that can be controlled remotely, which would swing out and press the button even if no human was available to do so in person. |
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But I think this idea is specifically for the "mode" in which the button press triggers the display to be updated to show the elapsed time between the current button press and the previous; that displayed result then remaining on the screen until the next button press which would overwrite the previous result. |
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This actually could be useful. If you want to know how long a machine has been running, for example, or how long you've been driving. |
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