The Nintendo Switch 2 appears to suffer from the infamous "Joy-Con Drift." Tear-downs reveal repairing the problem may have ...

That strip of carbon film inside a joystick’s potentiometer can wear down over time, affecting the flow of current and the accuracy of voltage measurements. Dirt on the film, either from moving ...

With the ergonomic joystick you can smoothly move through the X and Y axis to perform movements with moderate accuracy. The X-Axis potentiometer of the joystick is connected to A0, while the Y-Axis ...

Once again confirming what many original Switch owners feared, iFixit’s teardown of the Switch 2’s Joy-Cons reveals a familiar joystick design that uses a resistive material that could lead to ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Joystick drift is a common issue that plagues many PS5 users, causing characters to move without any input. It’s frustrating, right? While traditional fixes like replacing potentiometers or ...