[sdiy] rotary encoder?

[Aaron Lanterman]

On Jan 8, 2009, at 5:11 AM, Tom Wiltshire wrote:
>

> I've wondered about something like this too, after having seen the  
> nice "virtual pots" on the Nord Lead. The thought was that you could  
> have a ring of LEDs and a single encoder connected to a cheap uP,  
> which would provide LED drive and read the encoder. You could then  
> just treat the whole shebang like a single part and set or read  
> values via SPI (or whatever comms takes your fancy).

My students did exactly that - they put a ring of 8 LEDs around each  
pot.

I'll be posting a link to this relatively soon.

- Aaron