[clug] O/T Digital Position sensing [SEC=PERSONAL]

Peter Barker pbarker at barker.dropbear.id.au
Tue Nov 3 22:27:36 MST 2009


On Wed, 4 Nov 2009, Andrew Janke wrote:

>> I need to know the position of a shaft that can rotate through about 90
>> Degrees. I have tried a rather crude setup with a micro-switch but I
>> require something a little more sophisticated.
> I'd just duck off to a car wrecker and pick up a crank-angle sensor.
>   http://wiki.r31skylineclub.com/index.php?title=Crank_Angle_Sensor

On the reduce,reuse, recycle theme - if you have an old mechanical 
(non-optical :-) mouse, it has the pieces needed.

> Andrew Janke

Yours,
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Peter Barker                          |   Programmer,Sysadmin,Geek.
pbarker at barker.dropbear.id.au	      |   You need a bigger hammer.
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