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How Keyboard Works - WordPress.com · 3 • Each roller is attached to a wheel, known as an encoder, much as a car’s drive train is attached by its axles to the wheels. As the rollers

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Page 1: How Keyboard Works - WordPress.com · 3 • Each roller is attached to a wheel, known as an encoder, much as a car’s drive train is attached by its axles to the wheels. As the rollers
Page 2: How Keyboard Works - WordPress.com · 3 • Each roller is attached to a wheel, known as an encoder, much as a car’s drive train is attached by its axles to the wheels. As the rollers
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How Keyboard WorksHow Keyboard Works

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Page 5: How Keyboard Works - WordPress.com · 3 • Each roller is attached to a wheel, known as an encoder, much as a car’s drive train is attached by its axles to the wheels. As the rollers
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How Pointing Devices WorkHow Pointing Devices Work

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Mouse MekanikMouse Mekanik

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• As you move a mechanical mouse by dragging it across a flat surface, a ball—made of rubber or rubber over steel—protruding from the underside of the mouse turns in the direction of the movement.

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A h b ll i• As the ball rotates, it touches and turns two rollers mounted at a 90‐degree angle to each other. One roller responds to backand forth movementsbackand‐forth movements of the mouse, which correspond to vertical movements onscreen. The other roller senses sidewaysmovements whichmovements, which correspond to side‐to‐side movements onscreen.

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• Each roller is attached to a wheel, known as an encoder, much as a car’s drive train is attached by its axles to the wheels. As the rollers turn, they rotate the encoders.

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44• On the rims of each encoder are tiny metal• On the rims of each encoder are tiny metal 

contact points. • Two pairs of contact bars extend from the 

housing of the mouse and touch the contacthousing of the mouse and touch the contact points on each of the encoders as they pass by. 

• Each time a contact bar touches a point, an electrical signal results. g

• The number of signals indicates how manypoints the contact bars have touched—the more signals, the farther you have moved the mouse. 

• The more frequent the signals, the faster you’re moving the mouse. Th di i i hi h h ll i• The direction in which the rollers are turning, combined with the ratio between the number of signals from the vertical and horizontalrollers indicates the direction that the mouse isrollers, indicates the direction that the mouse ismoving.

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T i i h f h• Tapping either of the buttons atop the mouse also sends a signal to thealso sends a signal to the PC, which passes the signal to the software. 

• Based on how many times you click, and the 

i i f hposition of the onscreen pointer at the time of the click the softwareclick, the software performs the task youwant to accomplish.

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Toucchh

Padd

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PointingSti kStick

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JoystickJoystick

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Flatbed ScannerFlatbed Scanner

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Sound Card

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PalmsPalms

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