[Tutorial] How to Use Incremental Encoders with Arduino

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📖 Chapters 📖
00:00 - Intro
00:15 - Theory
01:32 - Wiring
02:02 - Code
02:55 - Outro
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[@px64]

very nice video with great quality. Keep making more!. Wishing you the best.

[@PhilippThalhammer]

Thank you for the encouragement, This means a lot to me!
I am planning to do more.
Anything specific you would like to see?

[@ImDadidu]

Great explanation.
Great animation.

[@MitchDavis2]

While this shows the fundamentals of how incremental encoders work, this implementation wouldn’t work so great in practice because you’re hogging CPU time to make sure you don’t miss a pulse.
This would be an excellent time to use interrupts to trigger this logic, which would free up your CPU cycles to actually run the rest of your project.

[@PhilippThalhammer]

I also had a version that was using interrupts. However, that was causing issues with rest of the code I was using in my project 🤔
I settled for this approach, because its more „general purpose“, I think.
Thank you for the comment though. I am also not all-knowing and would love to learn more about the topic :)

[@lohikarhu734]

You might like to look at the STM32 encoder functions, which use 2 timers to do count and direction, with the ability to "chain" the encoder counter to another timer to get the pulse width of the transitions, to generate speed values...

[@PhilippThalhammer]

Sounds interesting 🤔

[@KirinDave]

Wait, it doesn't have a Vin pin?

[@PhilippThalhammer]

This one does not. There are models with 4 Pins, that include a Vin I belive.
When I started playing around with it, I assumed it would be working the same as a Potentiometer and connected 1 pin to ground, one to a GPIO and one to 3.3V. This resulted in me frying my microcontroller 😂

[@lohikarhu734]

Einfach... Interesse encoding both step change to get direction.

[@PhilippThalhammer]

What do you mean by this? 😅
I already get the direction 🤔