Comment on Steam Controller

MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• BunScientist@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  TMR, not Hall Effect

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  • entwine@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Even better

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• Joeffect@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I really liked my hall effect keyboard until a few keys decided to start triggering by themselves making the keyboard unusable

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  • maccentric@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Is that common with that technology?

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    • BunScientist@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      the og steam controller has hall effect triggers and I never heard any issues with them, some third party controller companies like 8bitdo have also used hall effect on their sticks for a while and I don’t think I’ve seen any complains.

      that said, the sticks are gonna be TMR which is … slightly different magnetic technology.

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      • Hazzard@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Been using the 8BitDo TMR sticks for a while, and they’re great so far. There’s no super long-term usage yet, the technology just isn’t old enough yet for anyone to have 10+ years of real world usage, but it’s fantastic hardware thus far, and I have faith in it to last as long as I’ll want to use the controllers for, unlike say, my Switch Pro Controllers (which I promptly replaced with 8BitDo controllers with TMR after discovering how bad the drift was on my OG ones).

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