Detent One is a concept product: a design and engineering demonstration by Detent Labs, not for sale. It is a machined aluminum desktop dial with software-defined haptics. A brushless motor lets firmware decide how the knob feels in each app: clicks, a fluid glide, a spring back to center, hard end stops, or snaps to markers.
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Press kit.
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press@detent.exampleBefore you write
- Detent is a concept product. Everything on this site is real design and engineering work; nothing is for sale, and no units exist to review.
- Numbers on this site are design targets for production units. Quote them as targets, not measurements.
- The founders and early testers named on this site are fictional. Please do not attribute quotes to them as real people.
- Detent is inspired by Scott Bezek’s open-source SmartKnob project. It is not affiliated with it, and he has not endorsed it.
Boilerplate.
Detent One is a concept product: a design and engineering demonstration by Detent Labs, not for sale. It is a desktop dial machined from one billet of 6061 aluminum. Instead of a mechanical click, a brushless gimbal motor and a 14-bit magnetic encoder let firmware decide how the knob feels, and change it in about a millisecond when you switch apps. Six feel profiles run from crisp frame-by-frame clicks in a video editor to a fader with a bump at 0 dB and hard stops at both ends. A round AMOLED display in the knob shows what it controls. Detent One is local-first, needs no account, and has open-source firmware and an open SDK. On paper it costs $349.
Fact sheet.
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- Product
- Detent One, a desktop dial with software-defined haptics
- Maker
- Detent Labs
- Status
- Concept product. Not for sale.
- Price
- $349 in Raw, Graphite or Glacier
- Founders Edition
- $449. Numbered 0001–2000 in Tally red, with a machined walnut plinth.
- Launch price
- $299 for reservations, and for orders in the first 72 hours after launch, until December 4
- Reservations
- $20 deposit, fully refundable (Founders $50)
- Launch day
- December 1, 2026
- Shipping
- Batch 1 in February 2027, Batch 2 in April 2027
- Body
- 6061-T6 aluminum, CNC-machined from one billet
- Size and weight
- Ø 72 mm base, Ø 58 mm knob, 44 mm tall. 412 g
- Haptics
- Brushless gimbal motor, field-oriented control at 10 kHz; 14-bit magnetic encoder, 0.022° resolution
- Feel profiles
- Ratchet, Fluid, Spring, Clock, Wall, Magnet
- Display
- 1.43″ round AMOLED, 466 × 466, under strengthened glass
- Connectivity
- USB-C: HID + class-compliant MIDI, no driver needed; Bluetooth LE 5.3, three pairings
- Software
- Open SDK (TypeScript and Rust); profiles are plain JSON. Firmware: Open source (Apache-2.0)
- Integrations
- Profiles for 17 apps, from video and audio to code, plus system controls everywhere
- Risk reversal
- 60-day studio trial, 3-year warranty, free shipping
Renders and logos.
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Mark, white Avatars and favicons on dark SVG, Mark, white
Color and type.
- Graphite Night. The studio at 11 p.m. oklch(0.135 0.006 355) · #0A0708
- Aluminum Ink on night, surfaces on day. oklch(0.935 0.002 355) · #EBE9E9
- White Day. Specs, shop and reading. oklch(1 0 0) · #FFFFFF
- Tally, screen The on-air light on screens. One lit thing per view. oklch(0.636 0.218 355.3) · #E83C91
- Tally, anodize Tally red: the Founders Edition finish, on metal. oklch(0.529 0.204 10.5) · #C4124F
detent
Software you can feel.
0.022° · 412 g · 32 mN·m
One lit thing per view: the tally line, the on-air light. Everything else is graphite, aluminum and white.
Press contact
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In a live launch this inbox would answer within one working day and book time with the team, and production review units would reach independent reviewers before any Batch 1 balance is charged, so buyers could still cancel after the reviews are out.
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