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Magsafe Steering Wheel! (For racing games) (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by 4lan@lemmy.world to c/3dprinting@lemmy.world
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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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[-] helenslunch@feddit.nl 11 points 1 week ago

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

[-] HurlingDurling@lemmy.world 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".

[-] we_avoid_temptation@lemmy.zip -4 points 1 week ago

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...

[-] helenslunch@feddit.nl 10 points 1 week ago

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

[-] we_avoid_temptation@lemmy.zip -4 points 1 week ago

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

[-] helenslunch@feddit.nl 6 points 1 week ago

...you mean a magnet.

[-] we_avoid_temptation@lemmy.zip -1 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] helenslunch@feddit.nl 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[-] 4lan@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

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

[-] helenslunch@feddit.nl -1 points 1 week ago

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

[-] 4lan@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

so your birth is the qualifier? lol

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

[-] helenslunch@feddit.nl -1 points 1 week ago

so your birth is the qualifier?

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

Bye troll

[-] 4lan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

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

Contribute.

[-] helenslunch@feddit.nl 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

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

[-] 4lan@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

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

[-] helenslunch@feddit.nl -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?

[-] 4lan@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

[-] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 6 points 1 week ago

What games are you playing ?

[-] 4lan@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

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

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

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

[-] 4lan@lemmy.world 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

this post was submitted on 09 Sep 2024
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