Comment by Muhammad Al-Rawi on July 16, 2012 at 7:28pm

Wow. That is amazing.

Technology has come such a long way. 

Comment by Maxime Carrier on July 16, 2012 at 7:30pm

Today's gyro are almost identical, I didn't notice the difference ;)

Comment by Cliff-E on July 16, 2012 at 7:47pm

We had drones in the 70's: they were classified as pigeons and balloons... These aircraft gyros needed the weight for sheer momentum/precision at low rpm. Cool fine.

Comment by Ryan on July 16, 2012 at 8:10pm

I love it, the old F-16 use to have a mechanical one too...imagine that!

Comment by Jack Crossfire on July 17, 2012 at 1:48am

It got us to the moon.

Comment by Darren Stan Oakley on July 17, 2012 at 2:31am

Really interesting to see how it works form inside.

Comment by Maxime Carrier on July 17, 2012 at 9:30am

Is there anything where MEMs underperform comparing to mechanical gyro ?

Is there any reason to still use mech gyro for some specific application ?

Comment by Don LeRoi on July 17, 2012 at 9:36am

Yes, stabilizing a camera.

Comment by Maxime Carrier on July 17, 2012 at 9:43am

Do you know why ?

Comment by Don LeRoi on July 18, 2012 at 4:24am

The spinning mass of a mechanical gyro resists movement of the object to which it is attached.  Its response is instantaneous.  A MEMs gyro simply provides the information to a stabilization system that then has to react to that information.

 

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