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Wait, pots are still used in game controllers? I would've thought they'd all have given way to 3D Hall sensors by now.
by zbrozek 4y ago
Wait, pots are still used in game controllers? I would've thought they'd all have given way to 3D Hall sensors by now.
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- duskwuff 4y agoUnfortunately, yes. And they wear out fairly frequently, too.
- zbrozek 4y agoWow, that's mindblowing. I haven't considered using pots for anything in almost 15 years. Sliding contacts? No thank you. Just today I diagnosed my truck's failed climate control to be due to a failed potentiometer in the temperature control mix damper actuator. Curse on whoever screwed up and didn't use a magnetic sensor for this application.
- retSava 4y agoThe very popular Nintendo Switch is infamous for dying controllers. I've had to replace the thumb stick twice within three years, and we weren't even using it that much. The Playstation 5 also them, and I've had to replace it once. No idea whether Xbox uses them though, but I would not be surprised if they did. What's funny is that, the controllers are already pretty effin expensive. Buying a new single PS5 controller is ca 1/6 cost of the console. With the Switch it's even worse, then it's about 1/3.
- voakbasda 4y agoWho said they screwed up? The engineer could well have suggest the right solution, but management saw an opportunity to Design for Repair. No one builds things to last anymore, particularly not cars.
- mrtranscendence 4y agoIt might be changing, at least to a degree. It's now possible to buy at least two third-party cross-platform controllers that use Hall effect sticks (that I can think of). I don't know when we'll see them again in first-party controllers, though.
- m-p-3 4y ago8bitdo released their Ultimate Controller and the bluetooth edition has hall-effect joysticks.
- eternityforest 4y agoI think drift may have actually gotten worse, modern systems don't seem to do the same boot time self calibration old systems did.