[Firestorm_x1] put together a tutorial about interfacing an analog joystick with a microcontroller. These analog sticks are easy to find; he got his from Goodwill but we’ve got a couple in our junk ...

Analog sticks have become a core part of modern video game controllers. They also routinely fail or end up drifting, consigning expensive controllers to the garbage. [sjm4306] recently did a repair ...

Every so often, that console-modding Benjamin Heckendorn wanders away from his lair at benheck.com to share some interesting projects with Engadget. History is littered with game systems using far-too ...

First there were the Tactile+ Plus stickers. Now, there's an exciting new development in the field of fake buttons for touchscreens! The Fling is an analog stick designed to be placed on an iPad's ...

Having to feed a machine an unending supply of quarters to enjoy your favorite video game was just one of many reasons arcades died off. But if there was one reason to actually miss arcade machines it ...

For all the talk about the elegance of the iPad, the device has one glaring problem: Your fingers. They’re — forgive our bluntness here — fat. Even the slenderest ones are too fat to poke around a ...

While at CES I try to avoid getting bogged down by dozens of random gadgets, and this time I mostly succeeded — but the mouse reviewer in me was intrigued by Lexip’s new gaming mouse that’s also a ...

Joysticks pretty much went out of fashion with the arcade, but they can still teach gaming mice a thing or two. The Lexip 3D mouse is a bit of a Frankenstein's monster, cobbling together elements of a ...

Recap: Before the Nintendo 64, most mainstream video game console makers (Atari excluded) stuck to a pretty standard template when designing their controllers. You'd have the directional pad on the ...

The new analog stick might be able to do something absolutely wild. We’re about to hit you with the latest round of Nintendo Switch 2 rumors, and this one is a doozy. Spanish language website Vandal ...