Unfortunately, that means that a lot of libraries and examples you can find don’t work with the newer system. I needed a rotary encoder — I pulled a cheap one out of one of those “49 boards ...

Encoders are an important part in automation assembly, as in this example of a HEIDENHAIN rotary encoder inside a Stausak robotics arm.

Wachendorff Automation is expanding its portfolio of absolute encoders in the WDGA series with variants featuring an IO-Link ...