I cut my teeth on 0402's I was trying to make a brushless ESC for quadcopters. I got to the software portion and my project died, I hate sitting in front of a computer typing

@laptop2d just connect via WiFi

@W5VO I was not. (Funny though. I would've known what a detent is without my background in lockpicking.)

As far as I can tell, a lot of low-cost optical rotary encoders are made using two slot detectors (or a dual slot detector) and an interrupter wheel. The interrupter wheel is either solid IR-blocking plastic with holes, or printed on a disk of something like mylar

@W5VO Good old days there were mylar encoders with a shape printed such that each "bit" output 8 levels of current. You could detect on/off, or 8 levels of on

Each vacation the same thing. I ask something and the wife just gives me the stare. I am just unsure about how many multimeters to take with me

@The Photon Yeah, I got the same thing but in the other direction, "oh you use an 0603? Well we don't have any of those left, how about a 1210?" Do these guys ever look at what they sell?

i'm reading a datasheet and it has a pin labeled G with a bar overtop of the G.

what does that mean?

my first thought was "not-ground", but that really doesn't make any sense, so.

(the datasheet)

Negated/inverted

inverted G...hmm

or active low :)

@heather G probably stands for "gate"

On the other hand, in the diagram on page 3, they label those pins as "Data Enable".

@ThePhoton ok, that makes a little more sense. thank you!

@PlasmaHH Minimum 3