In the video after the break [365 Robots] takes us through the build process of a closed-loop motor with a custom optical encoder. The motor’s body was printed from ABS to withstand the heat ...

On its stand at the recent SPS exhibition in Germany, the encoder-maker Heidenhain was demonstrating how secondary encoders ...

Analog and digital optoelectronic sensors combine an LED and an optoelectronic integrated circuit in a compact package to enable optical encoders to provide absolute or incremental position ...

But the most exciting upgrade of all was the new filament sensor. Using an optical encoder similar to what you’d find in a mouse, the Prusa i3 MK3 could detect when filament had been inserted ...

ViaSat’s ECC66100 is a family of soft decision Forward Error Correction (FEC) IP cores based on turbo product code (TPC) designed for use in 100 Gbps communications ...