Rotary Encoders with the Raspberry Pi Pico and MicroPython

Rotary Encoders with the Raspberry Pi Pico and MicroPython.
Do you want to use Rotary Encoders with the Raspberry Pi Pico and MicroPython? Then this is the video for you.

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[kevinmcaleer]

I'm going to add a rotary encoder, an ssd1306 display and bluetooth to a pico to create a menu screen that can control which program the robot is going to run.

[VEEBProjects]

Excellent stuff. A video on reading a rotary encoder using interrupts would be great

[variouslifedjak]

The code in the video worked great. Very good information to get a person new to the rodeo coder up and running.

[zaksept]

Very helpful. Searched rotary encoders and this was the first result. Thanks for the great vid.

[FengXue]

Hey man! Thank you so much for your video. There are not too many videos about pico I think. Your videos are extremely helpful for a new learner like me! Thanks again! You R the Best!

[cfg]

I'm really impressed with the rotary encoder directional demonstration. The direction of rotation was not intuitive to me, but now I can describe it to others and it *makes sense*,

[johnnyw]

Thank you for sharing! I was surprised to see you not having to software 'debounce' the rotary decoding portion of your code. Perhaps there are some filters inside your particular device? Encoding 'chattering' is usually circumvented with low pass filters or some kind of finite state machine in your software.

[allthegearnoidea]

Very good video thanks for the detailed explanation

[AJBK]

button debounce is required because in the old days when you released the button, the contacts would bounce and retrigger a detections.

[SperlingMark]

fantastic tutorial. really helped, thanks!

[Anguiano]

Thanks for the video, very well explained. It would be nice to talk about the Alps RKJXT1F42001, which is also a rotary + 4 directions pad. Greetings

[PontusThePilot]

Great video as always! Really informative in a way that is easy to understand :)

[Kosro]

Great video, really dig the quality of the content :)

[HanD_]

Hi Kevin, Is it possible to detect the button press by using another threat in Python? That seems a much easier way... I think.

[Dasol]

Can you do a video on micropython pid controller for positional control? Thanks

[tiarakusumadewi]

Hi, Sir. can we use raspberry pi pico to read the incremental rotary encoder? (ex:

[mehdikarimpoor]

Hello good time
I program with esp32 in ThonnyIDE environment.
When I upload and run the code, to continue coding, when I hit the stop button and ctrl C, the code and repl environment does not open for me, and there is no way to install the firmware on the board again.
What is the method for this problem? Does using the Visual Studio Code environment solve this problem?

[Ewig_Luftenglanz]

is there a way to make this with C'?
:/

[brantwinter]

That's not really the correct definition of debounce