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Originally posted by IVIaxor
Thats pretty cool, looks like you put alot of effort into that. However, why not just use a normal off-the-shelf optical encoder, it would much better resolution and might even be easier to do. It could be included as part of your custom electronics.
Many optical encoders are expensive and the number of pulses they can send back to the brain far exceeds the stamp processor. This is just simple way of doing it, similar to an optical mouse.