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Re: encoders

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Originally Posted by Joe Ross
You can handle encoders without interrupts, as long as they tick slowly. If you can guarantee that you poll the pin at twice the rate it transitions, you would be able to poll it reliably.
just thinking, if you poll it at twice the rate it transitions, chances are you will get more ticks than actually occur with the encoder.