One of my friends has a motorized knob he uses for volume control- shr wrote a script that relays the current volume to the Arduino that controls the whole thing.
It's awesome- I love that thing so much and have parts on the way to build my own.
I think the issue is more bad integration than it is a bad idea.
A VFD or 7-segment display next to a pair of buttons for up and down works quite well for temperature control, and lets you integrate it nicely with digital controls.
The issue here is not that it's impossible to integrate the analog physical and the digital aether- it's the implementation that's oft lacking.
It's awesome- I love that thing so much and have parts on the way to build my own.
I think the issue is more bad integration than it is a bad idea.
A VFD or 7-segment display next to a pair of buttons for up and down works quite well for temperature control, and lets you integrate it nicely with digital controls.
The issue here is not that it's impossible to integrate the analog physical and the digital aether- it's the implementation that's oft lacking.