car timer

[seabass]

Hey there,

Lats night I had insomnia and was very bored so I made a little car timer in flash. Set the time between 1 and 60 seconds and it runs along the track.

I'm going to use it for my special needs class as they will respond better to a visual timer like this rather than just numbers on a clock.

It's pretty crude but fun anyway!

[seabass]

by the way, click the car to start it on it's journey!

[LisaD]

How cute! It looks like my Honda! Can you edit the time to show alternative times like 10 seconds or 2 minutes?

Just fyi, the new Classroom Management Resource Pack includes lots of timers (6, I believe) that you may want to try out as well.

On US Planet, try: http://www.Prometheanplanet.com/us/server/show/ConResource.11647

On UK Planet, try:
http://www.Prometheanplanet.com/uk/server/show/ConResource.11650


Lisa

[Lara]

Great, thanks for sharing! Although I felt compelled to sit and watch the screen for 60 seconds to wait for it to go through the finish line!

[seabass]

yeah you can change the time to anything between 1 and 60 seconds and the car will slow down and speed up accordingly

Lara, thats funny, why didnt you just change the time to like 5 seconds!

[LisaD]

Ok, I see it now. I was looking for a button to allow it to edit the time. You can, in fact, edit it directly and then click on the car!

5 seconds was great for me!

Lisa

[Lara]

Because I also didn't realise you could change the time! But now I reread your original post I can see I must have been half asleep earlier

[davidlloyd]

Great stuff and it's so easy to change the time. Thank you.

[zeca]

Hi,I loved your car!
Could you tell me the tools you've used to do it? I'm a new user.
Thanks in advance
Zeca

[Peter Lambert]

[clap] I think its great and I admire you for learning to master (at least a part of ) Flash. I gave up after trying to teach myself for about 3 months :rolleyes:
Zeca, this has been written in a program called Flash by Adobe and the Flash movie has been embedded in the flipchart page.

[seabass]

Yeah it's made in flash, takes a while to learn it but when you do you can make fun stuff like this, this took me about 30 mins to make.

I actually taught myself the basics of flash in a month, I used a tutorial book then I just fooled around with it a lot, as kind of a hobby. Theres loads of code on the internet you can grab and use/change however you want. Once you start getting to grips with it, its really an easy thing to make stuff like the example I posted, i think it only has 10-15 lines of code :-)