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Gyroscopes That Don't Spin Make It Easy to Hover
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lugnet.robotics
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Mon, 19 Aug 2002 12:12:56 GMT
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Marco Correia <marco@soporcel.SPAMLESSpt>
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http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/08/technology/circuits/08HOWW.html
By PETER WAYNER
"[...]The secret is the piezo gyroscope, a small motion-sensing device
originally developed to help take the shake out of home videos. The Segway
personal scooter may be the most famous secondary application of the
technology, but given that few of the scooters have been produced yet, the
gyroscopes have seen far greater use in model helicopters and other
aircraft.[...]"
Has anyone built a custom sensor based on these ?
...probably too expensive for simple LEGO bots, no ?
mc.
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: Gyroscopes That Don't Spin Make It Easy to Hover
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| (...) Never used one, no, but have been tempted to try out an r/c plane or heli after reading about this other device you can install in a plane or heli that senses the horizon and adjusts the controls to keep the plane/heli level. Apparently this (...) (22 years ago, 20-Aug-02, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Re: Gyroscopes That Don't Spin Make It Easy to Hover
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| (...) Not yet ;) The Murata part looks worth wrapping in a brick though! The big question, in my mind, is what would you want a single axis rate gyro for in a Lego robot for? It certainly won't help with navigation if mounted in such a way as to (...) (22 years ago, 21-Aug-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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