Oops - someone nearly caused a fire with the Steam Controller Puck

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GamingBot@lemmy.zip · 1 day ago

warm@kbin.earth · 18 hours ago

This only happened because of a charging smartwatch. You can’t short it with just any metal contacting them. The watch burnt out the puck.

It is entirely avoidable from a design perspective, but it’s not just like any metal will do anything.