Free Day 2013 has come and gone right under everyone's nose. Insights into US lottery law and the latest on education tours in the future.
Our third Free-Day has come and gone and we have a few new products that some of our lucky winners might be interested in getting.
It's Free Day 2012! Tips on how to stay connected to SparkFun in a variety of ways during the mayhem.
The Free Day Quiz has returned! Browse through all of the questions that were available during the chaos and test your knowledge.
Tags
Recent Blog Comments
Adventures in Science: Rotary Encoders
Member #134773
/
3 hours ago /
1
Hello, I am wondering if you needed to mount the ‘neon light’ onto a backboard like the real ones or whether it really is sturdy enough to…
I wish things were as simple as shown in the above diagrams. But they are not - far from it. If you connect any kind of arduino directly to…
Shawn, here is an example of “worst dimmer ever.” I’ll take your…
Interesting….I didn’t know that. I would have thought they all used potentiometers!
Thanks! Sad that we missed it by a week! I do remember those old mice….I was always having to clean out the ball cavity. I didn’t have an…
The N64 controller’s analog stick used rotary encoders instead of potentiometers… The PlayStation 1 “dualshock” controllers used…
Forgot to mention another place rotary encoders are/were found: those of us who remember “mechanical” mice, they had one quadrature detector…
Hi Shawn! Great video! I just wish you’d posted it last Monday! FWIW, Tuesday of last week I was at an Amateur (Ham) Radio club meeting, and…
I have a quick request. Once you have the schematic and board finalized, please provide both the schematic and a board output as pdf files…
