By Steve Bush 18th October 2016
If you thought there was nothing much left to do with switches, think again, and Elma has bought real-time variable feel to a rotary encoder.
Dubbed Cyber One, as a switch it combines a 384 clock/rev rotary encoder and push-button.
Then, for user experience, as an experience, its firmware offers various pre-set ‘feels’, including: 0-6 Ncm torque (electromagnetic), 8-64 detents, artificial end-stop, spring return, and vibration.
Oh, and it has an RGB back-light.
Control is through a UART and amongst options is a choice of encodes output modes: direction/clock or A/B quadrature phases. The data sheet is here.
Consumption is 1.9A peak from 24Vdc, behind the panel the switch is 36mm diameter and 40mm deep, operation is over -20 to +70°C and sealing is IP54 (splash proof).
Cyber One is available from Foremost Electronics, which is expecting applications in medical (respirators, imaging, monitors, laboratory equipment), cockpit (commercial vehicles, farming, construction), industrial (machine tools, process controls) and entertainment (lighting and audio-broadcast).
“The Cyber One may be supplied with customer specific pre-set feels and individual control knobs,” said Foremost.
Connection is through an 8pin Amp MicroMatch: +24V (two pins) ground (two pins) UART in clock (A) out direction (B) out push button out
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