Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] read it and drool
From: Chris Baugher (baugher_AT_enteract.com)
Date: Mon Dec 04 2000 - 19:00:15 EET
On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, David Olofson wrote:
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> Been thinking about it, but haven't done it yet. Would be interesting
> to see if it could really work. :-)
>
> There are optical high resolution rotary encoders that would be
> suitable for this. One of those, a counter chip and a few gates on a
> bidirectional parallel port would probably be the easiest prototype
> hack. (The counter wrapping at 256 is ok, as you only deal with
> deltas. Just read frequently enough to get at least two readings per
> full counter cycle.)
This is exactly the kind of thing I've been thinking of trying. Where
might one find these high resolution encoders you speak of?
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