[Kevin Karan]

Originally Posted by steven114

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

We made ours from scratch, but we kept it very small, and light. We made our disks out of polystyrene and the holder out of acrylic, cut them out on our laser. What is that big hunk of metal for, is it a guard?