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Originally Posted by asid61
I was going to use the XMOS microcontroller to do it, and I guess it's possible to read the encoder on that. That seems like the easier way to do it at this point.
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Check to see what the maximum reliable reporting rate of your microcontroller is, and make sure your encoder won't overwhelm it when running at free speed. If it does, you may need a counter divider as an input prefilter, though that will likely ruin the quadrature function of your encoder. This won't be much of a problem if your goal is to set speed, but it could prevent you from specifying an output position based on the encoder.
After assisting with the animation last year I realized how cool and useful Inventor was and I started flirting with it. Half a year later I think I have lost all possibility of ever having a girlfriend, and frankly I don't care because I would definately bare the child of this program. - negfrequency [more] 
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