The prototype has a threshold set via potentiometer for convenience ... creating a proximity sensor. The sensor shown here is essentially two plates mounted side-by-side, attached to an Arduino ...

“Whereas a potentiometer joystick is nearly guaranteed to fail eventually, a Hall-Effect joystick could hypothetically last the entire lifetime of the controller.” Hall-effect sensors can ...

The joystick (left) and rudder pedals (right) magnet configurations with a hall effect sensor. A normal potentiometer was used in the throttle lever, and [Tom] also added a number of additional ...