[Pete] needed a rotary encoder for one of his project so he set out to build his own. As the name implies, a rotary encoder measures rotation by encoding “steps” into electrical signals which can be ...

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Editor's Note: See also the Follow-on Article that describes how to generate Gray Codes for non-power-of-2 sequences. Note that the correct grammar and spelling for Gray codes is “Gray” (not “gray”, ...