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Inside there’s an Arduino Pro Micro taking input from eight Cherry MX switches and two optical encoders.

In the age of robotics, automation, and precision engineering, success isn’t just about speed—it’s about accuracy. At the ...

NUMERIK JENA's LIA 2 series optical linear encoder series is designed to be more robust against certain contaminations like dust and fingerprints due to its dual scanning window sensor. This non ...

Rotary encoders are indispensable tools for providing position feedback in many motion-control and automation processes. Lifts, overhead monorails, automated storage and retrieval systems, and ...

Celera Motion, a business unit of Novanta Inc., announced new sizes and capabilities for its AuraTM Absolute Chip Encoder Series of rotary and linear optical encoders with MicroE technology.

How optical rotary encoders can provide real-time motion feedback on motion applications using stepper motor-driven linear actuators.

Equipped with a non-contacting optical linear encoder and a preloaded, precision-ground, ball-screw, these stages can provide much higher accuracy, better repeatability and dynamic performance than ...

Building an affordable lower power linear actuator using little Arduino hardware and programming. James Bruton takes you through the process ...

It is amazing how many Arduino programmes for decoding rotary encoders start with something like: "I looked at all the available rotary encoder sketches ...