One thing to note – cheap mouse encoders are known to cause a lot of contact bounce so you will need to debounce the signal from the encoders. I have tried some variants for C1-C2, and settled with ...

Disassembling the mouse you can get two optical encoders plus four infrared emitter/detector pairs. Then you can reassemble your new sensors into a quadrature incremental optical encoder.

The scroll wheel on a mouse is nothing more than a rotary encoder, and can easily be used as a sort of tuning knob. Replacing it with a better encoder gives it a much better feel, so that’s what ...

Hagstrom Electronics, Inc. introduces it’s new KE-USB108, full speed USB keyboard encoder. The KE-USB108 features 108 individual programmable inputs. It accepts input from push button switches, toggle ...