Re: gEDA-user: [OT] MIT Flea

["evan foss" <evanfoss@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 9/21/08, Larry Doolittle <ldoolitt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Guys -
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>  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.

Ah yea. The thing I was thinking of is kind of the reverse of what you
said but now that I look at that thing I think you are right.


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>    - Larry
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