I needed a rotary encoder — I pulled a cheap one out of one of those “49 boards for Arduino” kits you see around. Not the finest encoder in the land, I’m sure, but it should do the job.

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The quadrature encoder with acceleration would seem easiest, but it still needs coding. My bright (I claim…) idea is to use two potentiometers connected to two analogue arduino inputs (method below), ...

Quadrature encoder wisdom If you are a novice to rotary encoders for human-machine interface, there is a potential pit-fall. Otherwise called quadrature encoders, they deliver two-bit gray-scale ...

He even detects rotation with a home-made quadrature encoder. For each spinner, he uses two ... The brains for both spinners is an Arduino Pro Micro attached to one of the spinners using a custom ...

This paper presents a capacitive rotary encoder for both angular position and angular speed measurements. The encoder is mainly composed of three parts: the transmitting segments; a pair of reflecting ...