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Add a tactile detent to a dial or drawer

July 28, 2026

In the news this week: Best Smart Locks of 2026: Excellent Door Upgrades — another sign that magnets are quietly getting smarter.

Detent Polymagnets for 4- and 12-position haptics your users can feel.

A programmable magnet collapses all of that into one passive component. By printing many small poles — 'maxels' — onto a single face in a coded pattern, a Polymagnet can self-align a connector, hold it firmly, and release it with a twist. No moving parts, no assembly.

Want to feel it? A demo kit puts the behavior in your hand — align, latch, spring, and twist-release, all from one part.

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Need an actual part, not just an explanation?

The catalogue is sorted by what the magnet has to do — hold, align, latch, turn, resist a sideways pull — because that is what you know when you start looking. If nothing there fits, describe the job and we will tell you honestly whether it can be done.

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