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

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 ...

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 ...

A teardown of Nintendo’s latest console has found that the core tech that causes joystick drift is still there. Plus it’s ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...