Sensor suggestion for interactive steering wheel

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What would be a good sensor or device to use for a simple interactive steering wheel (outdoor)?
I’ve been testing with Wiimote in beta but this crashes when the controller disconnects.. Any idea?

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Phidgets always play nice with vvvv

For most of the rotary sensors you would need to implement encoder interface since it seems not to be part of the nuget.There are 2 rotary encoders though that are bit limited in rotations but would work oob via VoltageRatioInput on a phidget vint hub.

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Depending on whether you need the steering wheel to rotate within a limited range or continuously (360° and beyond), you could use either a standard potentiometer (for limited rotation) or a rotary encoder (for continuous rotation).

Phidgets is a simple otpion, but also poti or rotary encoder plus arduino or esp32 would do the job.

A potentiometer (poti) is a resistor resulting in analog values (from e.g. 0.00 → 1.00 in vvvv), while a rotary encoder let’s you detect rotational impulses as digital values (a tiny bit of Arduino Script or vvvv patching required).