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Re: pic: 114-Sensor Teaser

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Originally Posted by Jay H 237
That's neat. It's not too often you see people making thier own encoders from scratch.
Instead of spending $50+ on each encoder, we spent a total of (maybe) $5, and it works quite well. I wired them up with a buffer and comparator to provide a digital output, which goes to two interrupt pins. Works great