I’ve been working on this little web app mostly for myself, but I want to share it with all of you. This tool helps visualize the relative diameter, width, and gap width of different yoyos.
You can enable saving your list of yoyos with the toggle in the top left. This just saves it to the local storage on your browser.
This is just the first version. Some ideas I have for updates in the near future include CSV import, dark mode, and styling improvements. If anyone likes to play around with React, here’s the repo: GitHub - aliciaaevans/dimyoyo: Yo-yo Dimension Comparison Tool
This is a neat little program!
Here’s a couple ideas you could add that I think would be fun for comparing yoyos with. This would be an extremely vague comparison and not really give you a super accurate comparison, but the point is to be fun, not be super accurate.
Add in a visual mark for where the center of the yoyo is. Add a value for the inner diameter of the rim, and add a value for the trapeze width of the yoyo. This way you can kind of get an idea for the thickness and width of the rim on the yoyo, and compare that to other designs.
Rough illustration of what these additions might look like. I think you can kinda already see where I’m going with this. It’d be just for fun, so no need to have true accurate measurements, you can just pull out a ruler and hold it up to yoyos you own to get these measurements.
Cool, ideas! I like the idea of having additional optional measurements. I was starting with the ones that are widely available, but you are right, it’s really ul to the user how accurate they want to be.
Yeah, that’s a good idea! I probably could draw some simple shapes on the canvas pretty easily (V-shape, organic, etc.).
What would be cool is to load the actual yo-yo image as a transparent overlay, but the user would have to actually provide an image and then crop and size it to the shape. That might be more effort than someone would want to put in to use it.
