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Watch the video related to each different section, then answer the following questions related
to input devicesin your own words

Scanners
Two-Dimensional Scanner

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1rJwikk_D4

Q2. Write the main function of a 2D scanner: is used as a method of inputting paper documents
and storing.

Q2b. Insert an image below that shows the stages involved in scanning an image

Q2c.What is Optical Character Recognition (OCR)? What does it do?

Three-Dimensional Scanner

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhrVaMwN5f4

Q3. What does a 3D scanner do?

A 3d scans a solid thing .

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Q3b. What can you do with a 3D scanned image?

You can make the picture as a solid .

Q4.Write about one real-world application of a 2D scanner, such as in an airport

Airline

Q5. Write about one-real world application of a 3D scanner

Some 3D scanners have been mounted on vehicles.

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Barcode Readers/Scanners

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-NYgMiS18A

Q6. What are the lines of a barcode used to represent?

A barcode it is a representation of data.

Q6b. Insert an image below showing the different parts of a barcode labelled

Q6c. What separates the left-hand and right-hand sides of a barcode?

The middle symbol seperates the left hand from the right hand.

Q6d. Insert an image belowshowing the use of the answer to the question above

Q6e. Below, design a barcode of your own trying to follow the rules of the image you
inserted for Q6b

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Q6f. Below, list the different stages involved when a barcode is scanned. You may use
bullet points

A barcode represents the line of numbers printed underneath it with a pattern of black
and white bars .Barcodes aredesigned for computers to read quickly by scanning red Led
or laser light across them .

Q6g. Below, list what happens after the barcode in a supermarket has been scanned.
Again, you may use bullet points.

Q6h. List two advantages to the supermarket of using barcodes on each product

Using barcode scanners reduces human errors .

Barcode scanners help users keep track of inventory.

Q6i. List two advantages to the customer of the supermarket using barcodes
Customers with scanners they save time cause it is quicker.
They are save from any type of human error.

Q6j. Give one other area a barcode may be used

In an airport for checking the tickets.

Quick Response (QR) Codes

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ad-_Iv4cmE

Q7. Insert an image below showing a QR code

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Q7b. List one common use of QR codes

Ticketing

Q7c. Write one advantage of using a QR code

Its versatility.

Digital Cameras

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OM3385Yd7Q

Q8. What have digital cameras replaced? Why?

They replased film cameras, because they are faster and have a much higher
picture resolution & quality.

Q8b. List two ways that a digital camera can be connected to a computer?

You can connect a digital camera to a computer with a USB and as well insertin the
memory card from the camera to the computer.

Q8c. List two tasks the microprocessor of a digital camera is able to do?

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A microprocessor of a digital camera is able to all functions of the CPU.

Q8d. What determines the size of the file when the picture is taken?

Size depends on what is being taken .

Keyboards

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gqe68usHA4

Q9. What are keyboards typically used for?

Keyboards ar normally used for writing .

Q9b. List two different methods a computer can be connected to a computer

Double-click system, and then select the Computer Name tab .

Q9c. What type of keyboard is used on a mobile phone?

On a phone it is used Qwerty .

Q9d. What is one danger of using a keyboard too often?

Q9e. What can be done, or used, to help overcome this problem?

Buying a new one .

Pointing Devices

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX6mliczPrs

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Q10. List two different types of pointing device

Q10b. Insert an image below of a tracker-ball

Q10c.What is the built mouse on a laptop called?

Microphones

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAY6SkGnnU0

Q11. What are microphones used for?

Q11b. List two example uses of a microphone?

Q11c. Describe the process between the microphone picking up sound and it being
stored on a computer

Q11d. Describe how ‘Voice Recognition’ works. You may use bullet points.

Q11e. List one use of ‘Voice Recognition’ software

Touchscreens

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHLUwNmbSv4

Q12. Are touchscreens input or output devices?

Q12b. What is the main use of a touchscreen technology in today’s society?

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Q12c. List the three different types of touchscreen technology

Pointing device, Track ball, Space ball.

Q12d. For each different type of touchscreen technology you found, list one benefit and
one drawback

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Sensors

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy3DXQ_BzO8

Video: EXT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjNAJCLtdm4

Q13. What is a sensor used for/to do?

Q13b. List different types of sensor that are used

Q13c. Do sensors usually provide analogue or digital data?

Q13d. Insert a table below that list different types of sensors and what they would be
used to measure

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Q13e. Sensor are used in monitoring and control applications, below is a flow diagram
of how these two applications work.

List two examples, for each, of how monitoring and control applications can be used. Try
to include a flow diagram for two of your examples, one for control and one for
monitoring

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Interactive Whiteboards

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IO9XjIoVX5M

Q14. Can information that has been drawn or written on an interactive whiteboard be saved?

Q14b. Insert an image of an interactive whiteboard below?

Q14c. List one advantage of using an interactive whiteboard when presenting to an

audience

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5 – 8: Apply these principles to real-life scenarios
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