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Modern gaming console controllers aren’t without their annoyances — Joy-Con drift, anyone? The problems might stem from design deficiencies, but we suspect that user enthusiasm and the mechanical stress it …read more Continue reading Exploring the Hall Effect for Haptic Feedback PS4 Joysticks
When the automobile industry really began to take off in the 1930s, radar was barely in its infancy, and there was no reason to think something that complicated would ever …read more Continue reading Take a Deep Dive Into a Commodity Automotive Radar Chip
Every once in a while we stumble across something so simple yet so clever that we just have to call it out. This custom linear Hall effect sensor is a …read more Continue reading Clever Mechanism Makes a Linear Control from a Rotary Hall Sensor
A “Check Engine” light on your dashboard could mean anything from a loose gas cap to a wallet-destroying repair in the offing. For [Dean Segovis], his CEL was indicating a …read more Continue reading Replace Your Automatic Transmission With a Bunch of Relays
Measuring air quality, as anyone who has tried to tackle this problem can attest, is not as straightforward as it might seem. Even once the nebulous term “quality” is defined, …read more Continue reading Better Air Quality Sensing with CO2
A team of engineers has developed a new type of camera that can detect radiation in terahertz (THz) wavelengths. This new imaging system can see through certain materials in high detail, which could make it useful for security scanners and other sensor… Continue reading New camera system taps into terahertz wavelengths for better imaging
Ceiling fans seem to be an oft-misunderstood or overlooked household appliance. As such, they seem to have missed a lot of the IoT wave. Sure, you can get smart controllers …read more Continue reading Ceiling Fan Adds CO2 Sensor
Guitar Hero was a cultural phenomenon a little over a decade ago, and showed that there was a real fun time to be had playing a virtual instrument on a …read more Continue reading Trombone Controls Virtual Trombone
[Daniel Dakhno] kept ending up in a situation where the ability to read the status of, or control a few digital IO pins with minimal effort, would be terribly useful. …read more Continue reading A Simple Web Configured BLE To GPIO Bridge
Change on industrial scales is slow, but if you’re operating your own small farm or simply working in a home garden there are some excellent ways to use water more …read more Continue reading 2022 Hackaday Prize: Plant Monitoring System Grows To Include LoRa