Window-winding: Electronically and with feeling
 

More bleed from the analysis to replace the Mk2 Golf GTI's wiring
with a LINbus-based network.

<http://golf2lin.wordpress.com/2011/11/29/window-winding-electronically-and-with-feeling/>
While describing the operation of electric windows[1], it
quickly became obvious that tactile and animated feedback
would be not just really nice, but also quite useful. So
instead of having just a passive rotary encoder on the
control knob, one embeds a stepper motor into the control
knob.[2]

I confess that that isn't the simplest way to control
electric windows. But perhaps it's the simplest way to do it
nicely.

[1]<http://golf2lin.wordpress.com/features/electric-windows/>
[2]<http://golf2lin.wordpress.com/features/motor-knob/>

Why are outer-rotor stepper-motors so hard to find?
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