Beating the $20B Joystick Drift Problem, and giving it away for free

Over the past decade, more than 400 million gaming controllers, valued at over $20 billion, have been sold, each featuring joysticks that are commonly plagued by potentiometer issues. Numerous class-action lawsuits have been filed in an attempt to tackle this problem. If the world won’t change, we’ll just have to change the world ourselves. So, I decided to confront this issue head-on, and I plan to make the final design solution freely available to all. This video documents the process of designing, testing, and implementing a rotary encoder hall effect position sensor (AS5600 by Osram), a component typically used in robotics, as a substitute for the potentiometer in the world’s most popular joystick. Wondering how to get your hands on these modules? With this video, I’m marking the completion of the first prototype of these hall effect joystick sensor modules. Chances are, this prototype has already been dispatched to my Prototyper Patreon supporters. The first prototype i