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From: Larry Doolittle <ldoolitt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 18:50:03 -0700
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Guys -

On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 08:53:29PM -0400, evan foss wrote:
> On 9/21/08, Stuart Brorson <sdb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >  But I did see this strange contraption from the street:
> >  http://www.luciani.org/photos/pic1/2008-09-21-mit-flea/IMG_1612.JPG
> >  Do you have any idea what it is?
> I think that is a gyroscope. Those things connecting the rings are
> likely resolvers or encoders of some kind.

I think the word you're looking for is goniometer,
specificially a two-axis goniometer.

   - Larry


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