Debounce a Potentiometer?

Using Arduino Sensors
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the potentiometer spazziness

While you might not think that word is offensive, remember this is a world forum and in the UK this is a very offensive word to use, and I don't mean potentiometer.

You will always get a reading +/- 1 out of any A/D converter, that is the nature of converters. You need to do one or more of the things you have been told about:-

  1. Add some capacitors to smooth the output.
  2. Add some software to take the average and thus smooth the output.
  3. Implement a threshold so that you only consider a number to have changed when it is say 3 or 4 units away from the previous reading. When you detect this distance then increment (or decrement) the number and look again.