Saturday, September 13, 2008

Universal Music Game Connector and Input Devices.

This week in lecture we learned about the various input, output, and storage devices. Things such as the keyboard and the mouse act as input devices because you use them to get something to appear on the output device (computer monitor). This lecture had importance to my invention because my invention is an input device for gaming systems.

Since my invention has a USB connector attatched to the end (and since gaming systems have USB ports in them), my Universal Connector can be thought of as an input device. Although the user has no literal control over the device, the reading of the instrument's signal and then the device's decision on which instrument it is allows the system to connect to the instrument. Because of this interaction, the device is an input device.

The Universal Music Game Connector can also act as a storage device. You can decide to save each individual instrument to the connector, so that the second you plug it in/wirelessly connect it, it remembers the instrument. This added function gets rid of any extra hassle that the user would face and helps to streamline the whole system.

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