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Frictionless Sensing: 3 Smart Home Projects Using Magnetic Angle & Distance Sensors

If you’ve ever fought with a scratchy potentiometer or a mechanical rotary encoder that eventually wears out, you’ll appreciate what the AS5600 brings to the table. It’s a small, unassuming chip that solves a very old problem, measuring rotation, in a way that never physically touches the thing it’s measuring. […]

2026-07-16

Frictionless Rotation: Getting Started with the Adafruit AS5600 Magnetic Angle Sensor

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If you’ve ever had a potentiometer go scratchy after a year of use, or watched a rotary encoder’s contacts wear down until it starts skipping steps, you already know the weak point of most rotational sensing: physical contact. Wipers wear out. Contacts get dusty. Mechanical parts eventually fail. The Adafruit […]