Peripheral Devices

What is a Peripheral Device?

• A digital system

• Is connected to a digital system but is not essential to the system

• Something I can physically hold

• The application inside the digital system

What is a Digital System?

• Something electronic that can be controlled

• A computer only

• An app like Mathletics

What is Hardware?

• The collection of physical components that make up a computer system. You can physically hold it.

• The software inside the digital system

• Input, Output and Processing

• Peripheral Device

What is Software?

• Mathletics

• Something you can physically hold

• A computer, Ipad and phone

• A set of machine-readable instructions, which directs a computer to perform specific tasks. The applications inside the Hardware.

Which one is a Hardware?

• Reading Eggs

• Mouse

• Ipad

• Maths book

Which one is Software?

• Tinkerbell

• Tynker

• Home Button

• Camera

What peripheral devices connect to a laptop?

• Game Controller and Drone

• Keyboard and Mouse

• Projector, Printer and USB

What peripheral devices connect to a PlayStation?

• Racing Stimulator and VR Headset

• Webcam and Keyboard

• Mouse and Printer

• Scanner and Digital Camera

What peripheral devices connect to an Ipad?

• Drone and Projector

• Keyboard and Digital Camera

• Sausage and bread

What is the main purpose of an Ipad?

• An iPad is a small computer that is only a screen, you touch it to use it.

• It's the same thing as a PlayStation

• You use a mouse and its huge.

• It has a Keyboard attached and is plugged into the wall.