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

    • 🔰Hurling⚜️Durling🔱@lemmy.worldEnglish
      151·
      2 months 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.zipEnglish
      1114·
      2 months 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…

        • we_avoid_temptation@lemmy.zipEnglish
          59·
          2 months 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 removed

            • we_avoid_temptation@lemmy.zipEnglish
              67·
              2 months 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.

                • 4lan@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
                  64·
                  2 months 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