[T] Other uses of Tetrinsic

Perhaps I should rename "Tetrinsic Switches" to "Tetrinsic Slider", because that's what it is. It's no longer a collection of switches, but 1 motorised slider encoder. I'm using this as an all-in-one input device for #Teti [gd0022], but it's nice to see what other thing I could use these likely-over-£15 sliders for.

It seems that the main idea for those interested in the SmartKnob View for something smarthome related, so I created a quick concept of what a Tetrinsic smart thermostat could look like:

If you can fit it, it could be a scroll wheel in a custom mouse.

This was the design of the Thaxis mouse without the joysticks and with a Tetrinsic slider where the thumb rests. It's a vertical mouse design. It became #Tetent Turntable [gd0038] and eventually #Tetent [gd0090]. I wanted to put a motorized scroll wheel on here, but at the time, I was thinking of a nema 14 stepper motor.

It could be a physical extension of a software synth.

Just imagine fewer of these, more spaced apart and shorter. Unless you've got the budget and the sliders above are >20mm apart from each other, then it's just shorter.

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kelvinA wrote 09/21/2022 at 18:22

Seems that Tetrinsic is like an "infinite" version of a motorized linear potentiometer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r12wG7ebvnY

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