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minus-squareSarah Valentine (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up143·8 days agoAnd like many classic bits of nerd silliness, it’s also low-key impressive at the technical level. The controller doesn’t have a speaker in it. They managed to get this clear, recognizable sound from haptic feedback motors!
minus-squareNatanael@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up48·8 days agoThey did the same on the first model! But only for a few things
minus-squareShadowRam@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up34·8 days agoYeah, I had the custom sound startup on the original controller.
minus-squareMinnels@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up6·8 days agoSeveral! You could have different ones on different controllers.
minus-squareSkunkWorkz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·6 days agoHaptics motors make sound, you can control the pitch by how fast you make the haptics vibrate. Map the vibrate speed to audio frequencies and you can play sounds Like how they can make an F1 engine play happy birthday https://youtu.be/Tr4zb-HHZs4 Or floppy drives play music https://youtu.be/yHJOz_y9rZE
minus-squareFippleStone@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 days agoAll hail the FLOPPOTRON https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtRVTYMA87k
And like many classic bits of nerd silliness, it’s also low-key impressive at the technical level.
The controller doesn’t have a speaker in it. They managed to get this clear, recognizable sound from haptic feedback motors!
They did the same on the first model! But only for a few things
Yeah, I had the custom sound startup on the original controller.
Several! You could have different ones on different controllers.
They did what now? 🤯
Haptics motors make sound, you can control the pitch by how fast you make the haptics vibrate. Map the vibrate speed to audio frequencies and you can play sounds
Like how they can make an F1 engine play happy birthday https://youtu.be/Tr4zb-HHZs4
Or floppy drives play music
https://youtu.be/yHJOz_y9rZE
All hail the FLOPPOTRON
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtRVTYMA87k