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A simple electromechanical rotary encoder

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norbert-heinzNorbert Heinz 05/29/2016 at 12:572 Comments

I have build a simple electromechanical rotary encoder using three resistors and some wire:

More infos are on my project page:

http://homofaciens.de/technics-base-circuits-encoder-disc-2_en_navion.htm

Only one analog input is needed to read the sensor. I will do some experiments if this type of sensor can be used to build a linear drive, soon.

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danjovic wrote 05/31/2016 at 00:27 point

Ingenious!

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Eric Hertz wrote 05/30/2016 at 20:49 point

nice!

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