Shaft Encoders

[Barry Klein]

 Sa> Has anyone ever considered the usee of surplus stepper motors (ex
 Sa> flopp or  hard drive) as shaft encoders?  Certain models (the more

 Sa> The other great shaft encoder to adapt is the arcade video game track
 Sa> ball! 

Or maybe just adapt old pc mouse encoders.

I just picked up some really cool shaft encoders at a swap meet for 50
cents each - probably 300 or more "windows" per rotation.  But not a
commonly available item for such a cheap price so I didn't intend to use
them for music stuff.  I was thinking of encoding my telescope movements.

Barry



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