Serial-Knob

These 0603 footprints I made... they shouldn't have been any smaller!

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I will have to think about debouncing a bit, but in general it works quite nicely. In this picture it controls the lights used to illuminate it. The lights understand serial, so the knob only has to send '+' or '-' to adjust brightness. It also works very nicely as a volume knob for amarok, kmix ... only requires linux, KDE4 ;-) The ATtiny85 is hidden on the other side ;-) As usual you can have all design files and code. Search for "Serial-Knob" and take a look inside the "ATtiny_projects" repo for code: [ 1 ],[ 2 ].

I don't have the luxury of living next to a mouser or digikey warehouse, so I can't get a 2.00mm header "just like that". There is an electronics shop in town, but it only stocks the more common things - definitely nothing SMD.

I don't have the luxury of living next to a mouser or digikey warehouse, so I can't get a 2.00mm header "just like that". There is an electronics shop in town, but it only stocks the more common things - definitely nothing SMD.

almost nicely. BUT, the footprint is for a different type ;-) Good enough for a prototype. What you can't see: there's an ATtiny85 on the bottom side that will do the decoding. The firmware will support "step / direction" output or send status changes via serial. The push-button can be used to switch between various modes. If I can figure out how to program this thing without having a 2.00mm ISP connector, I might have a half-pleasant weekend ahead of me. Lots of code-recycling should speed things up a lot.

Is it useful? Maybe. I have a couple of existing projects that would benefit from a rotary knob, but not enough code-space is left to add encoder handling. Serial comms is already working, so this is the simpler way to make it work. A little quiz: {1,-1,0,-1,0,0,1,1,0,0,-1,0,-1,1,0}

Is it useful? Maybe. I have a couple of existing projects that would benefit from a rotary knob, but not enough code-space is left to add encoder handling. Serial comms is already working, so this is the simpler way to make it work. A little quiz: {1,-1,0,-1,0,0,1,1,0,0,-1,0,-1,1,0}

It's doable for small panels, but gets tedious pretty quickly. Creating a footprint for the mouse-bites helped a bit. It would be really nice if KiCad supported "cloned" copies, so changes to the parent automatically propagate to all children. This panel was ordered at hackvana .