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aThe magnetic pickup contains it's own magnet like a guitar pickup, and the flywheel has to be ferrous like guitar strings. bg
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aThe magnetic pickup contains it's own magnet like a guitar pickup, and the flywheel has to be ferrous like guitar strings. bg
can it do this?
martin
Heh. Clever indeed.
-- Rich Webb Norfolk, VA
I get the rest, but where's the "3" ?
Cheers, James Arthur
Oops, got it. Doh.
--James
-- The innermost arc goes 3/10 of the way around the circle. JF
Thanks -- I'd missed that.
--James Arthur
Nice one, I've created them using FastCAD but this saves a lot of hassle, especially for Gray encoders.
Just a little request: an option to fill the page by step-and-repeat when printing?
JS
I once saw a thing on teevee where the two guys who had been making all of the "crop circles" show exactly how they did it. It's trivially easy to walk through a grain field like that without leaving a trace - just walk between the rows. And you can make a perfect circle by standing a guy in the center with a rope, and you can figure out the rest.
But even after seeing that, the True Believers refused to believe that the "real" crop circles were a hoax. ;-)
I'm thinking of making sort of a mask of that Jesus pic,
Cheers! Rich
That feature occurred to me the first time I looked at that lonely little wheel in the center of the page. Then I thought that it would be hassle enough to make one encoder. Who would ever want more than one copy?
After trying to punch an accurately-located center hole, though, I quickly realized why someone might want more than one. (It took me three tries.)
So, I'll consider the feature for a possible future upgrade.
Thanks for your suggestion.
BTW... a bit of irony...
I ordered some tiny SMD phototransistors from Electronic Goldmine to use in my homebrew encoder. With the transistors, I also ordered some junkbox filler parts to fill out the order enough to make the shipping costs worthwhile.
One of the add ons was an assortment of pots, since I thought I'd be tearing more than one apart before I figured out a good mechanical codewheel mounting arrangement.
Included in the pot assortment were two quadrature encoders! One a Clarostat 128 CPR encoder, the other a beautiful Bourns ball bearing
256 CPR encoder.I hope to find time to test them this evening. If either of them work (particularly the Bourns), I won't have to fiddle around with a homebrew encoder.
So there's irony for you. I bought the pot assortment as a throw-in of project parts, and acccidentally received encoders that might eliminate having to build the project at all!
There must be a lesson there. :-)
Tom
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