About electronic circuits?
Friday, June 19th, 2009 at
6:19 pm
How do electrical circuits make stuff work? Like i don't see how inducing a current on anythign can make it work… such as, how does an Xbox controller make the commands do stuff in game… things like that, idk i hope i conveyed my question well enough, but i am terribly confused 
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The wires sent electrical current through the wires, and the wires are connected to everything in the controller.
The electrical energy converts to mechanical energy, which allows the device to work.
Really meaningful answers to that question are not going to be given in a paragraph or two. The transistors that make up the circuit can be thought of as electrically controlled switches. The transistors are wired into configurations that form logic gates. The logic gates are wired together to form a central control unit (CPU). The CPU can respond to a series of machine instructions that make up a program. An Xbox is essentially a special purpose computer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field-effect_transistor#Uses
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic_gate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_processing_unit