Fiberoptic joystick with quadrature encoders and arduino

2010-12-19

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I have designed and built a joystick that contains no electronic parts -- only fiberoptics. The motion is sensed via quadrature encoding, and the signal processing is handled by an arduino microcontroller.

How to terminate fiberoptics:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OosMQHQlY40

http://benkrasnow.blogspot.com/2010/12/fiberoptic-joystick-with-quadrature.html

http://benkrasnow.blogspot.com/2010/02/linear-position-tracking-with.html