A physical Spotify controller built with an Arduino Uno, 16x2 LCD, push buttons, a rotary encoder, and a Python bridge using Spotipy and PySerial. The controller allows users to play/pause music, skip ...

What is a rotary encoder? A rotary encoder (RT) is a device that you can rotate infinitely. On most rotary encoders, when you rotate them you will feel a bump (known as steps), and most RTs have about ...

The IQaudio Pi-DAC+ audio board attached to my Raspberry Pi 5 has terminals for connecting a rotary encoder. It seems that by connecting a rotary encoder to these, you can control the ALSA audio ...

Touch screen head units are pretty much the norm these days. Many compromise with annoying on-screen volume controls or tiny buttons. If you find yourself with such a unit, you might like to hack in a ...

In the era of touch screens and capacitive buttons, we’d be lying if we said we didn’t have the occasional pang of nostalgia for the good old days when interfacing with devices had a bit more heft to ...