[sdiy] rotary encoders

[Tom Arnold]

On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 05:32:10PM -0500, bruce tovsky wrote:
> i'm building a control surface with mucho knobs,
> and the prospect of soldering 8 led's x 32 knobs
> makes me a little nauseous... cough....

Make a small PC board that mounts the LEDs and rotary controller and has a
ribbon cable coming off to run back to whereever.  Yeah, you still have to
solder all the LEDs but it goes much faster.  I went one step further while
playing with stepper motors as rotary controllers and put a scenix chip on
the board to read the stepper motor and control the LEDs, but I never got
much further then playing. ( ie : the huge sequencer I was working on never
got far off the ground )

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