Product category: Keyboards, Switches and other Human/Machine Interfaces
News Release from: Abacus Group | Subject: CH Products IP Desktop USB joystick
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 21 March 2007
USB joystick for
industrial control applications
A new industrial joystick with a USB interface is for use with applications running under Microsoft Windows and Windows Embedded in industrial control environments
Abacus has introduced a new industrial joystick with a USB interface, offering a responsive, accurate and easy to integrate control interface to the growing number of Microsoft Windows and Windows Embedded applications in the industrial control environment. The joystick allows industrial systems developers to offer operators a user interface experience that is as intuitive and easy to use as that of popular computer games.
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The CH Products IP Desktop USB joystick readily integrates with any software application recognising joystick inputs via Microsoft's DirectX.
It provides fingertip control via a three-axis Hall-effect joystick with two buttons on top.
The housing offers an additional ten programmable buttons.
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The joystick is self-centreing, and the housing is made of high-impact glass-filled nylon for maximum durability.
Abacus also offers CH Products IP Desktop Software, an optional utility that creates a joystick/mouse combination device and allows users to toggle between the devices at the press of a button.
The software also creates a fourth joystick axis, 'R'.
IP Desktop Software is designed to work with Microsoft Windows Operating Systems.
Qualified through Microsoft's own Belt Training Programme, the 25-strong Abacus Embedded team in Europe includes knowledgeable local representation backed by a highly trained technical specialists.
This specialist operating-system expertise is supplemented with the display and embedded computing expertise of display specialist Trident and the wireless communication technology of TDC, all accessed through a single point of contact.
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