Re: [Flashforth-devel] Shaft encoder options

[Mikael N. <mik...@pp...>]

These magnetic rotary encoders look quite promising.
The mechanics is simple too.

/Mike

On Tue, 2013-02-05 at 10:40 +0000, Bob Edwards wrote:
> see http://store.makerbot.com/magnetic-rotary-encoder.html. The chips 
> alone are very cheap 
> http://uk.farnell.com/jsp/search/browse.jsp?N=2031+203959&Ntk=gensearch&Ntt=magnetic+encoder&Ntx=mode+matchallpartial. 
> I'm thinking of buying some AS5040 
> http://uk.farnell.com/ams/as5040-assu/encoder-magnetic-rotary-10bit-16ssop/dp/1630800 
> and button magnets and just wiring my own using 'dead bug' construction. 
> OH2NLT uses that approach 
> http://www.kolumbus.fi/juha.niinikoski/Hall_encoder/Hall_encoder.htm.