As you might have noticed, the 38-KHz pulse generator is built around the evergreen timer chip NE555P (IC1). Here, the RC components (R5-C3-P1) set the astable frequency to drive the infrared light ...

Dolby Laboratories at the NAB Show said it plans to incorporate Dolby Pulse into its Dolby DP600 Program Optimizer and Cat. No. 561 Dolby Digital Plus/Dolby Pulse encoder module later this year. The ...

An absolute encoder includes a coding disk in binary or gray code format, the electronics to read it, and communications circuits. A multiturn encoder may have several disks connected by gears as ...

This project implements a Renishaw optical encoder interface using the BiSS-C protocol on an STM32F446RET6 microcontroller. It reads position data from a high-precision optical encoder and converts it ...

Engineers using an incremental encoder for the first time often have a misunderstanding about what types of signals are provided by an encoder and how to interface an encoder to their application.

This sketch reads the rotary encoder module and displays the value along with a slider on the built-in screen using the TFT_eWidget library. The counter value and slider position are updated in ...

This article is part of the Ideas for Design Series: Vol. 3, No. 8. In many applications, accurately sensing the position of an electrically controlled mechanical device such as a motor is critical.