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

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months 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] 21 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months 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] 14 points 6 months 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] 5 points 6 months 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] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

...you mean a magnet.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months 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] 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months 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] 6 points 6 months 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] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months 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] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

so your birth is the qualifier?

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

Bye troll

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

Contribute.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months 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] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months 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 6 months ago

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

What games are you playing ?

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

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

games these days suck in general.

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