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iFixit Says Switch 2 Is Probably Still Drift Prone (www.wired.com)
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[โ€“] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 74 points 3 weeks ago (20 children)

Of course it is. Unless they switched to hall effect sticks, which they already said they weren't doing. For whatever reason, they still want to save the pennies instead of using the better component even after the previous issues and lawsuits. Why do companies insist on shooting themselves in the foot constantly?

[โ€“] wizzim@infosec.pub 18 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

While Nintendo is absolutely to blame for not fixing the situation, I've heard they were not going for hall effect sticks because of the interference with the joycons magnets.

Full disclosure, I have no Switch, Retrodeck Enthusiast here ๐Ÿ˜

[โ€“] riskable@programming.dev 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I design things that use hall effect sensors... The magnets in the joycons would not have interfered. Those magnets are:

  1. Too far away from the sticks to matter.
  2. Perpendicular/orthogonal to the magnets that would be in the sticks.

Besides, you can cram hall effect stuff super tight just by inserting a tiny piece of magnetic shielding between components. Loads of products do this (mostly to prevent outside magnets from interfering but it's the same concept). What is this magic magnetic shielding technology? EMI tape.

There's a zillion types and they're all cheap and very widely used in manufacturing. I guarantee your phone, laptop, and many other electronics you own have some sort of EMI tape inside of them.

Just about every assembly line that exists for mass produced electronics has at least one machine that spits out tape a bit like a CNC machine (or they pay the cheapest worker possible to place it).

[โ€“] wizzim@infosec.pub 3 points 3 weeks ago

Thanks for the thorough explanation!

Then it's a mystery why the didn't use Hall effect joysticks. It the cost of the part so much more expensive?

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