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drums
June 16th, 2007, 09:30 PM
I posted this to the SonForce Kids thread, however, I think it might have benefit to be posted here as well. I'm sorry for cross posting.

I liked the decoders from American girl, http://www.americangirl.com/agmg/decoder/pdf/decoder.pdf .

I decided to decode the decoder into 4 sets of 26 images.
http://www.southeastcommunity.org/images.zip

Also the decoder wheels that I will be using.
http://www.southeastcommunity.org/both_on_page2.jpg

This JPG is sized so that each wheel takes one sheet of paper. I will print on cardstock and a razor blade to cut out the boxes. I thought to use a brat to attach the two wheels together but they my tear out. Maybe some sort of tool that can makes snaps.

Anyway this was a lot of work to decode the wheels into individual images. I hope somebody else can and will use these. Using the individual image files makes it easier to encode your phrase.

If anyone is interested, I have a perl script that will convert a phrase to a html file that can be placed in any of the 4 image directories. Then you can open that html in a browser and you will have the encoded phrase. I can send that to you upon request. Wish I knew Javascript better . . . :-)

houseparent
June 17th, 2007, 05:25 AM
Double cap rivets would work very well for securing decoder wheels. they will fit loosely enough to allow the paper to move and they won't tear the paper.

You can get them at Hobby Lobby and I have seen them before at Wal-Mart

http://www.craftsetc.com/store/item.aspx?ItemId=35309&dep=50&cat=8&subcat=5&Search=Y