They did what now? 🤯
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SarahValentine@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks agoAnd like many classic bits of nerd silliness, it’s also low-key impressive at the technical level.
The controller doesn’t have a speaker in it. They managed to get this clear, recognizable sound from haptic feedback motors!
jlow@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Haptics motors make sound, you can control the pitch by how fast you make the haptics vibrate. Map the vibrate speed to audio frequencies and you can play sounds
Like how they can make an F1 engine play happy birthday youtu.be/Tr4zb-HHZs4
Or floppy drives play music
youtu.be/yHJOz_y9rZE
Natanael@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
They did the same on the first model!
ShadowRam@fedia.io 2 weeks ago
Yeah, I had the custom sound startup on the original controller.
Minnels@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Several! You could have different ones on different controllers.