C. A. Sanger on wed 24 feb 99
Yeah, production numbers are always a real consideration. However, such
a device would appeal not only to potters, but the whole
ceramics/ceramics-related industry. I imagine a handheld device would
appeal to those who are out in the field and not at their PC. BTW, I
realize I could use a current TI calculator to do it. But I'm a big
believer in delegating. If I can badger someone into providing a better
tool, I don't have to use limited time resources learning to use a
calculator that isn't designed for the task.
C. A. Sanger
Kansas, USA
David McBeth on thu 25 feb 99
I used a hand held glaze calc tool in grad school. We called it paper
and pencil.
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David McBeth, MFA
Associate Professor of Art
330 B Gooch Hall
University of Tennessee at Martin
Martin, TN 38238
901-587-7416
http://fmc.utm.edu/~dmcbeth/dmcbeth.htm
Andi Fasimpaur on fri 26 feb 99
Russel Fouts Wrote:
" It could even be made to run on any device that would run Windows
CE for instance"
I came into this thread late, but I had been wondering if that option
had been explored... There are a lot of WinCe 1.0 HPCs out there that
you can buy inexpensively.('cause they're obsolete) then all you have
to do is have a desktop that you can port to, and you can port your
glaze recipe file over to the HPC, take it to the studio with you
(mine has no moving parts so I'm not as worried about dust as I would
be with a laptop or a studio desktop) and run your glaze calc
programs, use the built in calculator for batch calculations, and take
advantage of having all of your recipes in a portable format when it
comes time to place orders with your supplier... "Gee, I'm running low
on Bone Ash, how many of these glazes that I'm making call for bone
ash so I can see if I need to add it to this order or if it can wait
til next month."
Really, I would be lost without my palmtop and I'm not even using it
for a lot of the things I'd like to have a computer in the studio
for... (mostly because I'm just discovering new and different things
to do with it as we speak...)
Well, speaking of the studio... I need to get to work.
Toodles,
Andi Fasimpaur
Ceramic Artist, Sculptor, Workshop Facilitator.
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Earl Brunner on fri 26 feb 99
yeah, I used that one too when I was working on my BFA. It was rather slow
thugh and prone to errors when the decimal point went to 3 or for places. I
finally broke down and bought one of those new fangled hand held calculators
( they advertized it a s a pocket calculator, I didn't have any pockets it
would fit in). It did addition, subtraction, multipliction and division.
If there was too much light you couldn't read the LED panel.
Cost me $70.00. That was the cheapest one I could find.
Earl Brunner
David McBeth wrote:
> ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> I used a hand held glaze calc tool in grad school. We called it paper
> and pencil.
>
> --
> David McBeth, MFA
> Associate Professor of Art
> 330 B Gooch Hall
> University of Tennessee at Martin
> Martin, TN 38238
> 901-587-7416
> http://fmc.utm.edu/~dmcbeth/dmcbeth.htm
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