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Input and Output Devices

Input devices provide data and control signals to computers and include keyboards, mice, scanners, cameras, joysticks, and microphones. Input devices can be categorized based on their modality, whether input is discrete or continuous, and degrees of freedom. Joysticks consist of a stick that pivots on a base and reports its angle or direction, and are commonly used in aircraft cockpits as center or side sticks. There are many types of joysticks including digital, paddle, analog, PC analog, joy pads, and those for Xbox and PS5.

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Input and Output Devices

Input devices provide data and control signals to computers and include keyboards, mice, scanners, cameras, joysticks, and microphones. Input devices can be categorized based on their modality, whether input is discrete or continuous, and degrees of freedom. Joysticks consist of a stick that pivots on a base and reports its angle or direction, and are commonly used in aircraft cockpits as center or side sticks. There are many types of joysticks including digital, paddle, analog, PC analog, joy pads, and those for Xbox and PS5.

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Input And Output Devices

In computing an input device is a piece of computer hardware


equipment used to provide data and control signals to an information
processing system such as a computer or information appliance .

Examples of input devices include keyboards, mouse, scanners, digital


cameras, joysticks, and microphones.

Input devices can be categorized based on:

Modality of input (e.g. mechanical motion,audio,visual,etc)

Whether the input is discrete (e.g. pressing of key) or continuous (e.g. a


mouse’s position, though digitized into a discrete quantity , is fast
enough to be considered continuous)

The number of degrees of freedom involved (e.g. two-dimensional


traditional mice, or three-dimensional navigators designed for cad
applications)

Different types of manual input devices

Keyboards

Pointing devices
Joystick

Touch screen

Scanners

Sensors

Remote control

Digital cameras

Microphone

Graphics tablet

Joysticks

Joysticks

Consisting of a stick that pivots on a base and reports its angle or


direction of the device it is controlling. A joystick also known as the
control column is the principal control device in the cockpit of many
civilian and military aircraft either as a center stick or side stick.
Types of joysticks
There are many types of joysticks:

Digital joysticks

Paddle joysticks

Analog joysticks

Pc analog joysticks

Joy pads

Xbox joysticks

Ps5 joysticks

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