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03/20/10 21:36
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#174356 - it is overkill
Responding to: ???'s previous message
using an FPGA is just a decoder with a pair of HUGE counters which anyone can do.
How fast are you going to close the jaws on a pair of digital calipers? not very I wouldn't have thought.

Just as a side thought which has always interested me random thought moment coming up, on a pair of scissors when you close them the point where the blades cross can be moving faster than the speed of light.mainly because its not a physical thing its just an arbitary point.You learn something new everyday ;-)
To get it to work you need very long blades, say a light second long and the handles an inch apart, you close the handles in less than a second and Bob's your uncle, although what this would look like is open to debate:-)

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TopicAuthorDate
What's inside digital callipers?            01/01/70 00:00      
   Optical gratings?            01/01/70 00:00      
   A linear encoder            01/01/70 00:00      
      You don't really need a dedicated chip            01/01/70 00:00      
      Thanks for link            01/01/70 00:00      
      You can use my quadrature decoder            01/01/70 00:00      
         Well I have already seen some neat FPGAs            01/01/70 00:00      
            it is overkill            01/01/70 00:00      
               Stiffnes would be a tiny bit of a problem            01/01/70 00:00      
                  possibly            01/01/70 00:00      
                     There's a shrimp that does that            01/01/70 00:00      
   Here is a link            01/01/70 00:00      
      Can you be more specific            01/01/70 00:00      
         http://www.syncmos.sh.cn/SN6600HH.html            01/01/70 00:00      
   another linky            01/01/70 00:00      
   Curiosity ?            01/01/70 00:00      
   wikipedia: digital calipers = ...            01/01/70 00:00      

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