 | | Gyroscopes That Don't Spin Make It Easy to Hover —Marco Correia
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| | | (URL) 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 (...) (22 years ago, 19-Aug-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | Re: Gyroscopes That Don't Spin Make It Easy to Hover —Kekoa Proudfoot
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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)
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| | | | | | | Re: Gyroscopes That Don't Spin Make It Easy to Hover —Kekoa Proudfoot
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| | | | | | (...) Here is the web site for the company that makes the heli/plane leveling device I was talking about: (URL) device is the Co-Pilot. I have been scared to get a plane or heli but now I am not so scared. Now I just need the $$$. -Kekoa (22 years ago, 20-Aug-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | | RE: Gyroscopes That Don't Spin Make It Easy to Hover —Marco Correia
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| | | | | | (...) As a kid, I dreamed of having a heli RC model. As I got older and learned that it needed some serious dedication and "talent" to pilot such a expensive and "deadly" toy, it scared me off. This article, and these devices such as the Co-Pilot (...) (22 years ago, 21-Aug-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Gyroscopes That Don't Spin Make It Easy to Hover —Steve Baker
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| | | | | | [This is *WAY* off-topic - but it can't go un-answered] (...) I'm not convinced. My father built and flew these contraptions and even with gyro's, they are extremely unforgiving flying machines. The big problem with RC helicopters is that you *will* (...) (22 years ago, 21-Aug-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Gyroscopes That Don't Spin Make It Easy to Hover —Ed Manlove
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| | | | | | | (...) [SNIP] (...) tweaking (...) don't (...) well. [SNIP] (...) I don't doubt the cost of these hobbies are expensive and even expert controllers have their (expensive) crashes. And I think of the gyros as only a sensor. But what you do with that (...) (22 years ago, 21-Aug-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | | | RE: Gyroscopes That Don't Spin Make It Easy to Hover —Marco Correia
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| | | | | | | | (...) [...] Steve, to put this on-topic: Flybots / HoverBots ;) here's more taken from the same article: "[...] Rogelio Lozano, a roboticist at the National Center for Scientific Research in France, said he reprogrammed his Draganflyer to take off, (...) (22 years ago, 21-Aug-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Gyroscopes That Don't Spin Make It Easy to Hover —Kekoa Proudfoot
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| | | | | | (...) Well, this is new technology. It's the kind of stuff if you used, your dad would tell you "son, back in the day, we flew helis with only ONE gyro, and it was mechanical, and helicopters were a lot harder to fly back then." The gyros the (...) (22 years ago, 21-Aug-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | Re: Gyroscopes That Don't Spin Make It Easy to Hover —John Barnes
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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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