Doepfer Pocket Electronics

I've bought loads of these for a range of projects. I also use Arduinos but the Doepfer PE is much easier and convenient to build into a solid device. Even includes ribbon cables and resistors. Great quality and reasonably resilient - I've only managed to kill one so far! Only caveat is that it is a little expensive.

I build t a custom MIDI controller with some joystick pots and this little kit was essential and the perfect thing. I'm no engineer but it was really simple to work with, the instruction manual made sense and it has been working perfectly. Nothing else on the market like it. My DAW sees it as a simple MIDI input device for CC entry. All good! Highly recommended.

Very useful and well designed encoder, great for tinkering and projects