The scroll wheel on a mouse is nothing more than a rotary encoder, and can easily be used as a sort of tuning knob. Replacing it with a better encoder gives it a much better feel, so that’s what ...

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Rotary encoder decode for Arduino It is amazing how many Arduino programmes for decoding rotary encoders start with something like: “I looked at all the available rotary encoder sketches and none of ...

The scroll wheel will need to work via a rotary encoder and not an IR transmitter/detector; see the source post or the video tutorial for more details and how to spot the difference.