Unquestionably, the guts of input devices are pretty cool to look at.

But how well do you know the components that make up a PC?

Sony PlayStation controllers or other gamepads will be similar inside.

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These voltages are calibrated so that they give a value for the position of the joystick.

Not all gamepads use such a system, though.

drifting: where dirt and damage in the potentiometers leads to the controller registering a constant joystick movement.

These just handle direct physical inputs and there are others that can track eye movement or entire bodies.