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Me and a few colleagues of mine are looking through the electrical components throughout the Nintendo Switch Joycons. Can someone guide us through how they work and willing to chat and help?
Which components specifically do you want to know about? If you haven’t looked at the Nintendo Switch Teardown yet, I would strongly recommend it. There is a bunch of information on the joycons in there as well. I’m not sure I’m the best resource since I’m not a Switch expert, but I have done a lot of fixing, tinkering and figuring out how boards work so, I can definitely try to answer your questions as best I can. UPDATE: I was going to edit in a bunch of info, but honestly, I think this more detailed tear down of the joystick itself is super helpful in understanding how they work. If you’re not familiar with the idea of a potentiometer, it’s essentially a variable resistor. Resistors are exactly what they sound like. They resist the passage of electricity through them. They are generally used to lower voltage in a circuit. Potentiometers are used in a whole lot of applications, but here the variance in resistance on either axis is used to calculate the direction the joystick is titled.
