[sdiy] Inifinity encoders

[Csaba Zvekan]

On Jul 9, 2008, at 12:13 AM, Manuel Odendahl wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Jul 8, 2008, at 11:43 PM, Csaba Zvekan wrote:
>> I just wanted to say that these encoders were awesome. :)  
>> Thanks ,Romeo for the link.
>>
>> I received them some time ago but didn't have the chance to play  
>> with them until tonight.
>> I used potis on my PIC's ADCs (13 to be exact)with my midibox but  
>> now since I got to know these little guys . I must say it's  
>> tempting to redesign things. It's elegant but the drawback is that  
>> they use two pins ... ohh well then maybe a bigger PIC.:)
>
> I connect my encoders to shift registers to poll them over a serial  
> link (3 wires). Works well enough even when polling at pretty low  
> speeds.

Interesting . All though I don't quiet get it. What is clocking the  
Shift register when it's idle? How do you distinguish between the  
different encoders . Do you have a schematic so I can look at it?

Csaba
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> Cheers, manuel
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