The joystick plays a central role in the control of mobile machinery. It is the interface between human operators and machine ...

With the EasyPoint, the company focuses on joystick modules which consist of a mechanical stack incorporating a navigation knob, a magnet and a two-dimensional Hall-sensor IC. Its simple construction ...

They’re essentially the same sensor with different interfaces — SPI for the 5170 and I2C for the 5273. Using just one of these sensors, he was able to build a joystick with the usual X- and Y ...

With a little help from some joystick potentiometers, [Hunter] whipped up a decent approximation of a $15,000 device that measures how much a user’s fingers are bent.

Pixart Imaging expects its sales to dip 15%-20% sequentially in the first quarter of 2013, mainly due to declined shipments of joystick sensors for Nintendo's Wii gaming machines, according to the ...

His Neo-Geo Mini handheld hack video, summarized in the above gallery, shows everything from joystick engineering (a 0.7-second process, give or take), to Adobe Illustrator schematic design, to ...

The product doesn't yet have a name, but it will resemble the Nintendo Wii sensor bar and probably sit below your desktop monitor. It should be priced at around $100, and will be released in mid-2014.