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Tornado Spinner- How to wire it up to USB
tommyinajar:
This fell out of a box, no instructions or plug, manual...
I don't have any plug, but 4 wires, black and white, 2ft twisted in pairs-How do I wire? Some old posts, nadda-
THANKS!! ;)
NuclearWarren:
That doesn't look like the USB version of the Tornado. I have one, and its got a chip etc.
You can plug that into an Arduino Nano, teensy, Micro or some such micro controller, which accepts all manner of inputs and outputs to USB. In the case of a spinner, you'd be making a single axis mouse.
See here:
https://github.com/jandelgado/usb-spinner
In that diagram, the four connections on the 'rotary encoder' are what you've got there (VCC, GRN, A, B).
ws
PL1:
--- Quote from: tommyinajar on September 08, 2023, 04:22:58 pm ---This fell out of a box, no instructions or plug, manual...
I don't have any plug, but 4 wires, black and white, 2ft twisted in pairs-How do I wire? Some old posts, nadda-
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Here's the pinout for the no-chip optical board on your Tornado spinner.
- Found the filename in AndyWarne's post here and a copy of the image here on archive.org.
Scott
tommyinajar:
Hey thanks guys!!
I figured it was an old model. I wonder if there is another one,
It's not slave master like turbo twist, is it?
tommyinajar:
Hey, will a Ultimarc spintrac work ok, right?
https://www.arcaderenovations.com/ultimarc-spintrak-usb-kit.html#262