Let me make one thing clear up front: I love both joysticks and cars. Loving cars is my job, and I've done my share to prove my joystick love as well. But I don't think the two need to be combined. At ...

I have started this joystick controller experiment inspired by the need of a simple DIY joystick which could deliver greater flexibility in the possible designs. Hardware component basis is very ...

You know how there have been experiments over the years where various companies have tried alternatives to the traditional ...

Mercedes-Benz developed a concept car back in 1996 that will have gamers even today both eager and hesitant to take it for a test drive. The F200 Imagination replaced the traditional steering wheel ...

Force feedback joysticks are prized for creating a more realistic experience when used with software like flight sims. Sadly, you can’t say the same thing about using them with mech games, ...

We've used steering wheels to guide our cars for more than a century, and it's worked out pretty well so far. They're simple and intuitive, and it doesn't seem there's much room for improvement---at ...

The very earliest automobiles used tillers to control their steering, but by the turn of the century the nascent car industry settled on using a wheel to control the steering, perhaps taking ...

The future of vehicle technology has been under discussion in Sussex. Delegates from the UK, Europe and the United States met at Sussex University for the first Total Vehicle Technology conference.

In this project, we create a joystick-controlled laser by connecting two servos to a joystick and using this setup as a pan-and-tilt controller for a laser pointer. The following is excerpted from the ...