Joystick

Joystick

Joystick is a device which is commonly used for playing video games. Joystick is mainly used to control the speed of the cursor and is thus popular in games involving speed like racing and flying games. The direction of push of the stick and the amount of deflection determines the change in position and the change in speed, respectively.

Description of Joystick

It is a stick with its base attached to a flexible rubber sheath inside a plastic cover. The plastic cover contains the circuit that detects the movement of stick and sends the information to computer. The position of the stick movement is given by the x and y coordinates of the stick.

Joystick