Ever wondered what's actually happening inside that clicky knob on your car stereo? It's a rotary encoder!.. and it's one of the most useful little components in electronics. In this video, we crack one open and show you how it works. You'll learn the key difference between an encoder and a potentiometer, what's spinning around inside, and the clever offset trick that lets your microcontroller figure out which direction you're turning the knob and count every single step along the way.
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The feel when the display says counterclockwise as it's being turned clockwise.
Never knew i needed this information. Pretty awesome since i use them all the time and seeing the one that is like a volume knob on my guitar is pretty cool to learn how it works. New subscriber
This is the perfect short we need on YT, as perfect as the little encoder can be.
Bro, great demonstration
Great demo! I have wanted to get into hobby electronics for so long but have no idea where to start.
I’ve always wondered how the volume control in my car works! This is super simple and super cool.
I feel that a long dormant part of my brain just lit up. thanks!
Thank you for the great content
I know how they work already, I've used them in multiple projects I've created, and this was still informative and great to watch. Nice job
Great introduction to rotary encoders. Now, how do the hall effect sensor based ones work?
No joke, maybe I can now finally fix the volume knob on my 2000s Sony Hi-Fi station with this info. 100% useful content; strange to see nowadays.
Thank you!! Really well done. Such a simple mechanism but I wouldn’t have guessed that’s how they detect direction. It’s funny what you can do with simple pulses and a system capable of checking timing. Computers are awesome.
I used an encoder that was 25 million pulses per revolution. It was used for precision positioning.
I swear , in this morning i was thinking how it work 😅
This is how old ball mice used to work. There were 2 of these slotted wheels, one for each axis
I could understand it perfectly and I had my sound muted and without captions, Premium content.
I love when something pops up that I’ve never even thought about wanting to know shows up and teaches me something super cool. Instant subscribe ❤
Excellent little info video 👍😎
very nice explanation thank u
Beautiful video