"This here is the reason I'll never buy anything from Sony ever again." Gamer reveals easy fix for broken controllers that ...

The Apple II joystick used a somewhat odd analog potentiometer design – the idea being that when you pushed the joystick far enough, it’d register as a move (probably with an eye towards ...

“Whereas a potentiometer joystick is nearly guaranteed to fail eventually, a Hall-Effect joystick could hypothetically last the entire lifetime of the controller.” Hall-effect sensors can ...

He then goes on to measure the resistance in a bad joystick, and sure enough ... he comes up with a simple circuit that places additional potentiometers between the wipers. With two joysticks ...