Interfacing shaft encoders

• Use interrupt on GPIO pin

  • every interrupt, increment counter

• Use timer to set period for counting

  • when timer interrupts, read GPIO pin counter
  • velocity = counter * distance per click / period
  • reset counter

• Pulse accumulator function

  • common function
  • some microcontrollers have this in a single peripheral device

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