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Magsafe Steering Wheel! (For racing games) (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've been playing some gyroscope based racing games on my phone and thought it would be cool to have a physical steering wheel to hold.

Since I already have a magsafe ring stuck to the back of my OnePlus Open I designed it to use magnets.

Functionally it makes the games way easier to play since you can really precisely tilt the phone. You can even steer one-handed pretty easily too

The magnets I used are a little weak so I'll be replacing that with another stronger magnet ring I have

Designed in fusion 360, printed in pla+ on K1max

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What games are you playing ?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So far RealRacing 3 & Riptide 2

open to suggestions!! It's best with games that are gyro-only controlled.
I bet those ball-maze gryo puzzles would be great with the wheel as a grip

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There's a Need for Speed phone app that works that way. It's alright.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

games these days suck in general.

I dont want a dozen in-game currencies and shit, I want to RACE

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

"Magsafe" is Apple marketing nonsense. Theyre just called magnets.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

Tupper

Ziplock bag

Google it

We are surrounded by marketing lingo, the thing is if someone says magsafe to me I'll know exactly what they are talking about, but if they just say "it's held with magnets", or "it's held with a ring of magnets" it will take a bit more explanation of how the magnets are oriented, and more words to describe than just saying magsafe. You and I we don't like apple, but who cares if magsafe becomes a linguistic term for "ring of magnets that holds and charges a smart phone around the battery".

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Magsafe is the marketing term for a specific layout and design of magnets for a specific purpose that is crucial to the function of the cool AF thing OP made, which you didn't bother mentioning at all...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A specific layout and design that this product doesn't even use, and isn't at all important to its operation.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It sticks to his phone via a 3rd party magsafe adapter, presumably like the one I have on my phone to mount a popsocket and shit

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

...you mean a magnet.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My point was, and remains, that if you're gonna comment on this dude's cool thing he made, maybe try not to be a pedantic asshat when the aforementioned dude who created the cool thing essentially calls it Loctite instead of thread locker.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

You may think it's pedantic but it's not. Words matter. Especially when those words are made-up marketing bullshit for words we already have.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

When someone asks you for a Kleenex you correct them or do you just hand them a tissue?

When someone asks if you have Q-Tips do you correct them?

Please don't turn this place into Reddit

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

These things have been this way since before I was born. Magsafe has not.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

so your birth is the qualifier? lol

I'm only 3 so magsafe has been around before I was born!

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

so your birth is the qualifier?

This seems like a perfectly legitimate and honest question. /s

Bye troll

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

dude go learn CAD and stop wasting energy on being an internet-hater.

Contribute.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

What makes you think I don't know CAD already?

I am contributing. I realize you disagree and are offended but thats reality.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The lack of any original designs in your post history says otherwise

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago

So...because I don't post them on Lemmy, I don't know anything about it? That's the logic you want to go with?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago