[simpits-tech] rotary encoder

[RickInNoCal at aol.com]

In a message dated 2/5/04 10:50:04 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
roy at flightlab.liv.ac.uk writes:

> On Thu, 5 Feb 2004 RickInNoCal at aol.com wrote:
> 
> >That rotary is a standard 'phase shift' rotary encoder, so it won't work 
> with
> >a keyboard emulator like the KE-72 without a decoder. The Knitter, which I
> >have, is a bidirectional rotary switch, which will.
> 
> 
> It will - I use them.
> 
> Again though, I'll qualify that with the comment that it will output a
> lower case char one way, an upper case char the other.
> 

       I stand corrected...  I just remembered seeing a description of a way 
to use a standard rotary with a hacked keyboard (or an emulator) - you assign 
one pair of contacts to, say, 'a', and the other pair to 'shift', so turned 
one way it sends a-shift, which comes out as 'a', and the other way it sends 
shift-a, which comes out as 'A'. 

Richard
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