From: altman@cryton.demon.co.uk (Hugo Fiennes)
Subject: Re: HARDWARE: Tilt sensors (was Sega HMD) 
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1993 15:38:28 +0000
Organization: The Serial Port



In article <1pgqdpINNc4q@shelley.u.washington.edu>
copley-devon@CS.YALE.EDU writes:

>In article <733583503snz@cryton.demon.co.uk> altman@cryton.demon.co.uk
>(Hugo Fiennes) writes [regarding tilt sensors]:
>
>>Model helicopter gyros are pretty good for this sort of thing.
>
>Wow!  Seems so obvious and cheap, someone must have thought of it
>already.  What's wrong with this idea?  You should be able to get
>pitch, roll AND yaw.  Combine it with sonics from a powerglove, and
>voila, 6D!
>
>Too good to be true.  What's the catch?

There isn't much of a catch as I remember (a friend used this setup
for a demo once) - they even run off 5v and give a digital output (pwm
I think).  Possibly they might drift too much for absolute readings,
but that might just be the cheap ones. Remember gyros are quite nifty
things!

Hugo

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