Joystick vs Thumbstick - What's the difference?
joystick | thumbstick |
A mechanical device consisting of a handgrip mounted on a base or pedestal and typically having one or more buttons, used to control an aircraft, computer or other equipment.
* 1989 , Microtimes (volume 6, page 140)
(slang) A penis.
(rare) To manoeuvre by means of a joystick.
* 2006 , Sid Davis, Home makeovers that sell
* 2007 , Gerhard Lakemeyer, Elizabeth Sklar, Domenico G Sorrenti, Tomoichi Takahashi, RoboCup 2006: Robot Soccer World Cup X
* 2007 , Gaurav Suhas Sukhatme, Stefan Schaal, Wolfram Burgard, Dieter Fox, Robotics: Science and Systems II
(video games) A small joystick that can be operated with the thumb.
As nouns the difference between joystick and thumbstick
is that joystick is a mechanical device consisting of a handgrip mounted on a base or pedestal and typically having one or more buttons, used to control an aircraft, computer or other equipment while thumbstick is a small joystick that can be operated with the thumb.As a verb joystick
is to manoeuvre by means of a joystick.joystick
English
(wikipedia joystick)Noun
(en noun)- If games are your life, the choice of a joystick is desperately important.
Verb
(en verb)- Marketing your home isn't as difficult as joysticking a Mars rover through a crater, despite what many people believe.
- Therefore, part of the errors in the localization results is due to the problem of joysticking the robot exactly onto the marked positions.
- It can run in autonomous mode or be manually joysticked using a radio controller.
