If you have a motor and you’d like to know where the shaft position is, you are likely to turn to an optical encoder scheme. However, as [lingib] points out, you can also use a magnet and a ...

For my money, there’s no greater malaise in modern gaming than stick drift. After forking out hundreds of dollars for a console and sometimes a similar fee for a top-of-the-line pro controller, seeing ...

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Hall effect sensors are everywhere right now. Keyboards, game controllers, and DIY kits use them for more precise inputs. But with any newly popular device, it can be easy to immediately jump onto the ...