What a great idea. Legacy VCR controls upcycled for digital control! There's a lot of those old decks and LANC deck controllers lying around...

This is a hard problem. Solvable only with try and error.

Those signals are just weird mess of coils, switches and resistors.

ESP32 clock speed may also be a contributing factor.

I asked Gemini to make sensible & readable version: https://github.com/timonoko/Jogwheel/blob/main/jogwheel_gem....

But did not improve much, except variable names are now less esoteric.