Market overview#

This page gives an overview on different DIY and professional products on the market. Last update Sep/2023. Refer also to hackaday.io.

Full 6D DIY projects#

started

name

author

link

picture

status

detection and electronics

mechanics

2016

Spacefox

Pepijn de Vos

link video

Spacefox1 Spacefox2

finished w/ video , Stewart platform made from potentiometers

3D prints & cuts from triplex

2022

OS3M Mouse

Colton Baldridge

link

OS3MMouse

in development

inductance to digital sensors for distance to w/ metal object as Stewart platform

3D print (included printed spring mechanism)

2022

Shamrock Sixnav

Brian Lu (GreenCap)

link

Shamrock

HW pictures, raw data but no final results

IR LED + Phototransistor, variable thickness plastics (IR damping)

3D printing + Springs

2022

Space Mushroom

Shiura

link video

Mushroom

finished w/ video

Stewart platform made from potentiometers (3x 2D analog joysticks)

3D printed

2013

6D (axsotic)

valentin heun

link

axsotic

start of a startup which is no longer existing

?

3D printed ?

2021

6D input

RepRap Ltd.

link

6DInput

investigation phase

Based on DIY force sensors, but also discussing 6 magnetic sensors

3D printed

2022

Haptik 6DOF input device

Matthew Schubert

link & video

6DOFHaptik

prototype build

Based on force sensors (strain gauges) and Steward platform principle

n/a

2024

One more 3D mouse

Vedran

link

OM3DM

first tests

magnets and hall effect sensors

3D printed spring

Full 6D professional products#

Product Name

Company

Picture

Technology

Comment

SpaceMouse

3D connexion

SpaceMouse

3 or 6 optical position sensors with 6 LEDs and slit structure, 3 springs, plastic housing and metal block mount

Probably the market leader. Teardowns: link or link or video

Less than 6D (DIY) projects#