Traditional gyroscopes work on the basis that a spinning object that is tilted perpendicularly to the direction of the spin will have a precession. The precession keeps the device oriented in a ...

To set the gyroscope, a ring that surrounds the gyroscope ... think of a clock's swinging pendulum and how, when the clock is working, it's always in motion, moving back and forth at a constant ...

Alex Tremulis was a car designer well known for his work as Ford's styling director. Thomas Summers was a gyroscope expert who had integrated the technology into missile navigation systems during ...

Imagine packing the Sperry unit on your next walking robot or self-balancing unicycle. Need a refresher on how gyro’s work? We got that, too. It even covers the modern kind.

Car buyers today have their pick of gasoline-powered, electric and hybrid vehicles. But if some 1950s visionaries had their ...

Cars and airplanes making themselves go both have different systems to make it work. Here are the differences (beyond the ...

Gyroscopes are perfect to damper short impulses of external forces but will eventually succumb if a constant force, like gravity, is applied. Once the axis of rotation of the mass aligns with the ...

NASA is working to resume operations on the Hubble Space Telescope after one of the spacecraft's gyroscope's failed. Hubble was put into 'safe mode' on Friday in response, while NASA engineers ...

In September 2022 Brad Pitt made his debut as a sculptor, showing his sculptures for the first time in a show with Australian singer-songwriter Nick Cave and British artist Thomas Houseago. The ...

It was December 25, 2013, and everyone in the gay steakhouse was getting amiably drunk. It was one of those Portland winters ...

Gyro Shack announced today their second location in Albuquerque is now open. Gyro Shack is continuing to share their unique quick-service menu offerings of gyros, salads and rice bowls beginning 10/15 ...