Explore the Lemokey L1 HE, a premium gaming keyboard with Hall Effect switches, RGB lighting, and seamless wireless ...

Melexis broadens the usage of the MLX90427, an embedded position sensor with SPI communication, to joystick and HMI applications in industrial, construction, agriculture and medical sectors. Its ...

Melexis is broadening the use of the MLX90427, an embedded position sensor with SPI communication, to joystick and Human-Machine Interface (HMI) applications in industrial, construction, agriculture ...

Zero-field Hall effect emerging from a non-Fermi liquid in a collinear antiferromagnet V1/3NbS2. Nature Communications, 2025; 16 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-58476-0 ...

The idea behind Hall effect sensors is that they reduce the likelihood of stick drift. This problem was so pervasive on the original Switch's Joy-Cons that Nintendo offered free, unlimited repairs ...

Considering all the headaches resulting from joystick drift and how easily Nintendo could correct it with Hall-effect thumbsticks, it is incomprehensible that it didn't.

See our ethics statement. Nintendo hasn’t confirmed what joystick technology the Switch 2 is using, but its not Hall effect sensors. Photo by Owen Grove / The Verge ...

"They're not Hall effect sticks, but they feel really good." The confirmation comes after Nintendo pointedly refused to offer details about the Switch 2's joystick hardware at a roundtable Q&A ...

And most Switch 1 owners had to live with drift as a fact of life. If you’re willing to crack open your Joy-Cons you’ll still have some hope for Hall effect on Switch 2. GuliKit told Gizmodo ...

That’s nice and all, but if you look at the replies to Nintendo Life ’s tweet about the lack of Hall Effect sticks, you can see a lot of people who are worried that the Switch 2 will be ...

Hall effect sensors have been in use for over 50 years — and were even used by Sega in the Saturn 3D and Dreamcast’s controllers that debuted in the mid-’90s.