I require your help regarding a problem I’m encountering.
I’m a DT teacher and have a student that wants to count revolutions of a wheel in a game they are creating… I have looked into Encoders… including magnetic and light.
I have found the Grove 12-bit Magnetic Rotary Position Sensor (AS5600)
We need to keep costs down!
Could this sensor work with a magnet in the wheel, allowing the student to count how many clockwise and counter clockwise revolutions have been made?
They are trying to invent a game where the winner gets the wheel to spin ten times in their chosen direction.
So Player A: Clockwise
and Player B: Counter-clockwise…
I assume we would then need an Arduino or similar and ideally Digital counter to see who was winning would be great!
@Dellquaydory Welcome to the RobotShop Community. One of the least expensive ways is to create your own encoder. Make a disc (the larger, the easier) with evenly spaced slits / cuts. Use an infrared emitter and infrared receiver positioned so that the light can or cannot pass through the slits (ie at the same radius). If you’re able to use components, the setup would be less than $1 each. A component which has both transmitter and receiver:
Hi cbenson… thank you for your input on this topic.
Would this option detect the motion/count of the wheel in both directions?
I assume this would need connecting to some power and an arduino or raspberry pi for recording the output and sending to the digital display?
