On The Shoulders Of Giants
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Cable management is like putting paint on a canvas.
Imagine how complicated those electrical rotary joints are with all those different signal wires
Or if you work where I work, like throwing spaghetti onto a bowl. :-)
How tf do you get a jet gyro???
I just wish less technicians served the spaghetti Monster 😂
Well said!
"The ancient Egyptians couldn't have possibly built the pyramids"
People with a pen, paper, and a few beers:
Remember that the pyramids are OLD. In the time of Cleopatra, the pyramids were as ancient as Cleopatra is to us. They come from a society that hadn't even discovered the wheel. I'm not saying aliens did it. But considering the pyramids were the tallest structures on earth until the construction of the eiffel tower, and the most massive structures until 1984 (weighing more than things like the Hoover Dam), there's more to it than simple human ingenuity.
Whatever led to the creation of the Great Pyramid was not seen again for most of human history, and is only being rivaled in very recent times.
@@PsRohrbaugh _”I’m not saying aliens did it”_ best comment ever
@@PsRohrbaughit was just humans and lot of time
@@PsRohrbaughthat never hit me cause I dont know who tf cleoprata is
@cowinheaven get a Egyptian history as well as a general history education then you good
Before the invention of the laser ring gyroscope, the limiting factor gyroscope accuracy was the bearing oil. Not only were the recipes closely guarded, but the location of the storage facilities was a highly confidential strategic secret. As part of his work on the SIOP, my grandfather was one of the few people in the nation who knew the location of every reserve of gyroscope oil.
That's awesome! I'd never even imagined there was such a thing as a specific type of oil for gyros :) and THANK YOU! for helping out!
blinker fluid is real, this changes everything
@@triangleunderstander7801lol
@@triangleunderstander7801always has been
@@triangleunderstander7801 LOL!
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That gyroscope is amazing! And you gave such a great sentiment about the intersection between art, science, and engineering. Those lines cross a lot more than most people think!
As impressive as it is not art
today people really call anything art
if anything can be art, then what is art?
I totally reject the notion
@@darkplasmo7921that's fine! Art is what you make it.
Never read a book on Dadism eh?
@darkplasmo7921 this is art to me because of the meticulous way in which it was assembled. I see other hardware, especially some mass-produced by overseas factories, and would not say the same thing in those cases.
@@Physicsduck i am aware, i just think they are absolutely wrong
the avant-garde movement has destroyed the fundamentals of art itself
and alt how some involved in the movement have made interesting pieces it is, it was and is nothing more than a gimmick
it was a rejection of order, but all it did was create a new flawed order
I could write 10 pages on the topic, I know many artists and gallerists and discusses the topic many times I own a painting from Joan Miró
I do consider many things art, just not an object created for a practical reason mass-produced and created in collaboration with many people.
I am an ex RAF Avionics engineer and used to service gyros like this one in the mid 1970’s, that were fitted to RAF aircraft to ensure Radar Scanner stabilisation. The gyro had to be bolted down to a bench to stop it “walking” on power up and power down. The gyro had to be left for 30 minutes after power off, to ensure it had stopped spinning before we could unbolt it from the bench. If you did not let it stop spinning, it would be uncontrollable if moved could cause a lot of damage, not only to the equipment but also to property and personnel. The gyro is housed in a spherical cover, of which you can only see half in this video. Thanks for reminding me.
Sounds like interesting game of battle tops.
Same here, ex Greenie/Avionics Tech on helicopters in the Army. I never get bored of Gyros.
Thank you sir you where more informative than the video creator
Remind me the film event of Horizon
Thanks for your reply. You made me understand this more with your explanation.
as a research engineer i often read old publications from Nasa or similar institutions from the 50s and 60s. And i am often baffled by what these people achieved back then. how much thought and attention to detail they put into their work (sometimes things can now be solved just with brute force of computation power, rather than lots of thought and carefull estimation). so as you said it, GIANTS of engineering and science!
Yep all that money and mind power, and what did they curse future generations with? Healthcare for all? 😂 Giant food production facilities? 😢 free energy? 😅 Nope. They spent the efforts of 2 generations to give us the ICBM with MRVs. Thanks for absolutely nothing A$$HOLES!
I retired recently and I worked in a refinery doing steam turbines and compressors and it is still pretty much the same old stuff, 0-25mm micrometers and DTI .Lots and lots of tiny measurements and clearances
Where can one find those?
Lol research engineer?
Makes it all the more frustrating when current day NASA thinks they know better than all those amazing engineers back then
"Kinetic sculpture" is an incredible, profound term. Thanks for sharing
Yeah and then you can even make it chime in the wind I think they call them wind chimes
An engineer is nothing but a mathematically inclined artist
I want to quote this. Thank you
Which is great until they get a little too artistic and less mathematical 😂
Hardly.
As a mechanical engineer, I approve this statement
Some engineers are. Not all of them, unfortunately.
My Uncle was in the Navy Seabees in the 70s. He was stationed on the radio once in a battleship and was bored so he by hand calculated the firing solution for all the cannons over a few months for multiple ranges, air conditions, elevation of location etc. They used his firing solutions on multiple ships for more than a decade. Just amazing minds.
My grandpa was apart of the Seabees around the sane time, that's super cool!
Before all the brainrot
@@CarterJamesFeichtinger What brainrot are you talking about?
@@porcupinepunch6893His own probably
@@porcupinepunch6893 people think that everyone today is stupid because they see stupidity all over the internet, the cause is "brain rot" from social media. I personally disagree, I think there were always stupid people and crazies, we just put them in insane asylums in the past so you didn't see them. Now we put them in Twitter and also journalism for the whole world to see, and it's a small minority of loud people.
"If I have seen farther than others, it is only by standing on the shoulders of the giants before me." -Issac Newton
The shipboard compasses were large and required approximately 12 hours to stabilize. I observed four repairs, which gave me a deeper understanding of the process than any maritime academy course could offer.
Within 5 seconds I searched “avionic gyroscope” in hopes of finding clear images and plans that would allow me to recreate this in 3D. It is clearly a work of art
One used to find a full 3D versions at old surplus electronic shops. I used to have one. It would be very difficult to power up and process the signals but worth it if you have the skills.
Look up ones for missiles! They look just downright like something your steal from an alien ship. Like a fusion core. Even the old ones look wild.
Also seekers look really cool as well.
Actually just search on TH-cam of missiles being broken down from the cold war. Absolutely works of art. No wonder why they are expensive. I bet they are way more complex mechanically speaking then today. (Although in reality aren't. Just that circuit boards don't look as amazing since you know... Have to use a microscope to see things on the boards.)
lol! your #D printed version is nothing like this gadget. The tolerances in machining this are unobtainable by the 3D process. Like trying to make a V8 motor by chipping flint.
@@user-cr5yy4te3i you sound like you think people really expect plastic model airplanes to fly
@@user-cr5yy4te3i Yes but you see, a 3D printed representation doesn't leave me in debt to acquire. Might not be JUST as good, but probably the closest most people are getting to one for a long time.
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I can't take him seriously because of that shirt. 😂
I never noticed that, lol 😅
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Idk why my eyes are wet 😭. You will have to be an engineer to understand how FUCKIN difficult it is to come up with a design like this, that too in an era without CAD and calculators. Just, all I can say is I am touching the feet of those legends.
"Nobody knows how a posi-trac rear end works, it just does"- Joe Dirt 1999
Thank you for that.
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Mona Lisa Vito would take exception to that, I believe.
The guys who have to fix it know how it works. We also are often tasked with finding fixes for engineerings mistakes.
My mom used to work on these in the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s. She recently retired 5 years ago after an amazing 40 yr career as one of those "elite engineers" you speak of. She graduated at the top of her class at Stevens University after doing 4 years in the air force. "Raw talent and sheer force of will" certainly describes her life. I truly enjoyed this short video. 🙂
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Brilliant people on another way of thinking. 😊
Well these are from before then sooo not so elite, but still decent by todays standards
Aah the chair force. 😊
Good stuff
I grew up with slide rule and book of tables.
I always find it amazing how people designed and built the most amazing things using them
*@PhysicsDuck*
Wow, I can see that spinning in a display inside an art museum. Pretty damn fascinating, interesting, and cool! Appreciate you showing this. 🤝🏻
Thank you! I really hope to find someone who can help me get this working as a demonstration piece. :)
@@PhysicsduckCrazy thinking this same technology was used for the V1 buzz bomb. It is a complicated and precise work of art.
This is why I love engineering
Same here!
It's one of mine too.
I’m one of those who gained an interest in electrical engineering from always dismantling my electronic toys when I was 6
As a Avionics Technician I always love to see stuff like this getting some attention. Aviation is full of so much cool tech and mechanisms. Through modern aircraft use Ring Laser Gyroscopes, not mechanical ones like this.
My dad’s an avionics tech/engineer, picked up the trade in the military, and when he got out he would go to Africa for work. When he was home we would chat for hours and hours about planes and helicopters and how he kept them going where they needed to be and how he’d rebuild all the instruments and rewire all the avionics throughout the aircraft’s. definitely mad appreciation for the boys that keep us flying straight man! Good on you!
Quick question, does those gyros adjust to earth curvature as the plane flies?
@truehighs7845 Technically their unaffected by earth rotation. When mechanical gyro's they spin up, they fix themselves to a fixed point in space. This way, the aircraft can always tell its orientation. That's the basic. I hope I didn't make it more confusing.
i am terrified to ever touch the components of a plane from a repair standpoint. like that shit is eldritch to me
The fact that he had to ask that means he's already confused.
speaking of gyroscopes I've always wanted to see the ones built by the man who created that one rail train. The system he built just to keep his train balanced on one rail sounds insane
Things like this convince me that most technology now is magic, just very highly understood and repeatable
Crazy to think that we have miniaturized this technology that we have it almost all on our electronic devices and take it for granted. Plus we now have GPS.
I believe it got replaced by Ring Laser Gyroscopes rather than miniaturized versions of this.
The one on your phone is much less stable over time. I'm pretty sure your phone tries to recalibrate multiple times per day.
The ones on spacecraft have to remain accurate over several weeks.
Edit: the ones on your phone appear to be just specialized accelerometers, measuring torque on a small mass as the phone moves.
@@nunyabusiness5075 yes, but what Im trying to say is, we have a gyroscopic system on our smartphones the size of a grain of rice, 60 years ago, these things weighs hundreds of pounds. Sure it may not be as accurate as these systems, but still
@@Kandralla And nowhere near as accurate and need constant updates to correct itself.
and gps is its own kind of pure fucking magic
sattilites talk to the reciever and go "hey this is the sphere this receiver is in" and then another one goes "this is where i think it is" and you repeat this about 5 times and you get a fairly accurate representation of where you are. Theres also RAIM, which monitors the integrity of the information of each satellites, and god think about Wide Area Augmentation System, which uses a bunch of ground stations across the US to find out where the sattilites think the ground stations are, which sends that information to a master station which corrects the ground station's actual location to the GPS's idea of where it is, to find out exactly how to correct for it, which is sent to a geostationary satellite which is then sent back to the reciever, which is then accurate to like, a 3m cube.
fucking INSANE.
The cable management on that thing is the true work of art
That really is beautiful in both form and function!
kudos to Elmer Sperry, (1860-1930) Elmer Ambrose Sperry invented gyroscopic-guided automatic pilots for ships and airplanes that have also been applied to spacecraft.
With Bill Lear
That is specifically a RNAV Gyroscope or VNAV gyroscope and its probably from an old airliner.
Both RNAV and VNAV are GPS navigation types. GPS is obviously satellite based and does not require the use of gyroscopes. What you are looking for is what's called an IRS/INS gyro.
And these days RNAV and VNAV are all GPS with a laser gyroscope to back it up. We truly are standing on the shoulders of giants.
RNAV and VNAV are digital but they used to use a gyroscope for GPS homing. Its a thing of the past now though
That shirt is a work of art too
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@@Physicsduck How old is this gyroscope ???
@@jangounchained5279really, some background info would’ve gone a long way
Wet beaver 🦫 bruh
I do that too
Shoulders of giants is a bit of an understatement. I can't imagine being able to make something like this
It is used in airplanes and in sea going ships and space ships. It establishes an orientation in space, as to what is up and what is down. It can be used to make eyeball adjustments or electronic automatic adjustments to navigation and orientation. This one appears to be for instrumentation or rudder type control; But there are bigger ones that actually right a vessel or robot or motorcycle or rocket ship.
Thanks . This guy didn’t even attempt to explain what it is for those who don’t know
@@WhuppusDingusHe probably assumed people who are watching his channel at least know what gyroscope is if not how it works.
@@supernova82Nope......
@@ericmckenney6289I also would assume most people know what a gyroscope is
@@icedawggg unless they live in a cave or are trolling
Sweet for sure! I retired from the Air Force and have helped pull many ins systems out of aircraft but.never saw the inside! Thank you
I may have been one of those guys you helped pull the ins system out.
But that was a long time ago in places far, far away.
and us back shop guys appreciated you flightline box pullers and wire chasers!! PMEL
The single rail train used this but on a massive scale! ❤
Beautiful statement that defines many practices such as soldering, construction, medical ect.
That gyro is running at 86,000 rpm. Once it's placed azimuth, to magnetic true north level surface it's run up to speed. It gets 3 voltage sources
Two are rechargeable batteries internal and One always on external power supply..
Some ships use them on satellite and radar antennas to always being in line with the satellites and the radar gives the best scans relative to the plate of the ocean
I had a stroke trying to read this
Clarification: It's not the entire thing that spins at that rate, only a set of flywheels inside the black canisters in the central frame in the gyro. The whole thing rotates so the thing in the middle can stay in one fixed orientation.
You should get that checked out. Op was pretty understandable.
Why 86000 rpm? That's surprisingly close to the number of seconds in a day 86400.
@@Pow3llMorgan ok ,i knew there was no way it would hold togather
Absolutely a work of art. So too is a Techtronics Oscilloscope.
Back in the '60's as a young tech, having a Techtronics Oscilloscope was like wearing neck Jewely amongst us wage slaves.
Sorry to be pedantic, but it's Tektronix. I used to repair and calibrate these when I was much younger.The old valve-driven models had ceramic connection strips with little U shaped 'buckets plated with silver and needed special silver-loaded solder for any repairs. Yes, they were beautifully made bits of kit.
Nah, thing of beauty sure. Incredible work. It's not art. That doesn't make it inferior or superior, just different.
Art's use is in expression & communication, a form of human communication of themes given characterization. This is not made as a form of expression, so it isn't art. That doesn't make it any less beautiful or incredible though.
@@alanmumford8806 And if I recall they furnished a small spool of that special solder mounted inside the cabinet.
@@pubcle art can be anything.
Engineering is a beautiful art. It’s like a combination of composing a symphony (bringing each tiny part into a harmonious whole) and sculpting (manipulating materials with respect to a specified 3D space). It’s 2 artistic philosophies in one practice!
The fact those connections go thru multiple spinning points is insane, the quality of connections must be unbelievable
That's exactly what I wrote in the foreword for my dissertation for my final exam:"if we forget the technical achievements of the past, we cannot achieve the dreams of tomorrow. We need to stand on the shoulders of giants...."
The visual craftsmanship in this device is humbling 🤟
They had slide rules. Thanks for tribute to my dad. He worked for Whittaker Gyro in the 50/60’s
Your Dad is one of countless unsung heroes.
slide rules brought us to the moon, yet SpaceX with access to world's fastest computers just mess up launch after launch.
Yes, but slide rules , fascinating as they are, are limited to APPROXIMATIONS, and had no built in functions like roots or powers that a modern calculator produces instantly. Using a slide rule and simple machine tools to built something of this level of precision and beauty is just mindboggling
@@mipmipmipmipmip quality of craftsmanship. Everyone traded quality for quantity these days.
Did Whittaker make actuators for fuel control as well?
I love the choice of words and how they are stitched
Math is full of patterns, and we often perceive/appreciate patterns as art.
That wiring harness is beautiful in its simplicity and neatness
I noticed the same. It's satisfying
One of my first jobs was lacing wire harnesses for electronic systems using lacing cord. It was indeed very satisfying work, then came plastic cable ties cheaper, faster, reversable but oh so ugly.
@@BeachsideHank Agreed, I use tie-wraps currently & consistantly have to wire looms to this standard . It is quite the norm. It is a shame that most cases, the wiring looms will never gert seen or appreciated once a unit is finished & buttoned up! (ROV electronics pods etc). What amazes me here, is that these looms & noticably the breakouts to the connector blocks, survive such high G-forces of the spinning Gyro's!
My OCD gives this the stamp of approval
Your tribute is poetry, a touching reminder of all those things that we only miss when they don't work.
From the same people that took us to the moon. Brilliant people
As a Mech Engineer. I think this is a thing of beauty.
As an engineer, WW2 era technology always fascinates me
Good old slide rules got us to the moon!
But maybe Hollywood docted footage.
Stanley Kubrick
"Giants who's shoulders we perch upon while spearing into the future" Is a fucking bar
My grandfather helped develop radar, never used a calculator, he used a sliderule that he had since elementary school.
Pretty awesome find. It uses extremely accurate servo outputs from this gimbal system to an artificial horizon indicator. Older systems obviously used analog signals, this is a 3-axis gimbal setup to get feedback for pitch, roll, and yaw. "Newer" systems went away from analog deflection and opted for digital feedback. It could be represented digitally with only 8 bits, the most significant (MSB) being 180, 90, 45, 22.5, 11.25, 5.625, 2.8125, 1.40625, these added up are approximately 360 degrees being represented with 8 bits, obviously this could be even more accurate with 8 more bits of accuracy, but not necessary for an artificial indicator.
So does each axis spin under servo power?
@@somethingelse4424something inside the chunk in the middle is spinning which makes it resist changes in orientation. The outer rings are there to let it stay in position as the plane moves, their orientation is measured, and those measurements translate into the pitch, yaw and roll of the aircraft.
They also have accelerometers to go with this and together the two can be used to determine the planes position using dead reckoning (tracking movement from a known position).
Nows the part where I tell you that the pilot only thinks they're flying the plane....
No, the weight is spun up under a vacuum, to reduce airflow drag, to eliminate as much gyroscopic precession as possible. The signals sent back as feedback drive a servo (the actual indicator) as a form of "error" meaning the indicator is not where the gyro signals say it should be, so it "chases" that error as it corrects and nulls the signal out (no more error) aka no need to move anymore.
@@Kandrallayup
You said a while lot of stuff fur being clueless to what modern systems use.
We haven't used mechanical gyroscope in decades. They are all ring laser gyroscopes and have been fur quite some time.
This isn't just a work of art, but a monument to the insanity and creativity of the physicists, mathematicians and engineers who worked out how to solve the problems of navigation using mechanical gyros and electronics and possibly magic. It's beautiful to those who understand the significance of it.
Optical gyros blow these out of the water but for the time this was a huge achievement and enabled airplanes and ships to have dead reckoning in the middle of the night and bad weather.
It reminds me of a luxury watch which is a wonderful Marvel and Engineering and Art as well
Love all you giants out there! Keep standing tall 🫡
The craftsmanship and meticulous processes of the old masters is what drew me into art! The glazing technique used in oil painting plays with the refraction index of the transparent(or translucent) medium being used to thin the paint. Light passes through the built up layers of paint before being reflected back to the viewer which leads to optical mixing of colors - the perception of color resulting from adjacent colors; this occurs in the viewer’s retina. Paintings that use this technique tend to have very lifelike qualities because your eyes are doing the mixing in real time instead of just using an opaque layer of a pre-mixed hue from the palette.
Positively gorgeous piece of art, that is!
Space Engineers is what first taught me of this. A device that can spin you and stop your spinning without gravity in a vaccuum.
It's been implemented in so many vehicle building games since then
We stand on the shoulders on giants.
You finally got my sub with that one, 10/10
Thank you for this video. Those men made civilization possible. We don’t think of them enough.
Work on some of today's vehicles, you'll be thinking of discussions you would have with the engineer's who designed it.
I love when the one part is spinning then suddenly stops and reverses direction.
Banging off the stops. The center gimbal can only rotate 180 degrees.
Each part of a gyro is mounted in a device called a gimbal, and ultimately a gimbal can only allow so much movement.The center gyro hits the edge of the gimbal and bounces off it -- also called gimbal lock.
In the movie Apollo 13, this is the same "Gimbal Lock" they were talking about. When a gyro hits gimbal lock, even for an instant, it loses its reference frame and no longer knows its spatial orientation. And for any astronauts relying on that gyro, gimbal lock of the flight guidance system is quickly followed by death, as the spacecraft no longer knows where it is, how fast it is going, or where it is headed.
@@doctechno2241 Thank you for explaining that. That's the question I immediately had watching this video.
25 years in airforce as an electronics technician these beauties were there among others.
This entire statement with a wet beaver shirt on... Love the energy, pure art 😂
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Thank you your work is appriceated!
You are so very welcome :) THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE! I cannot express how much I appreciate your time :)
Your words nearly brought me to tears and ultimately moved me to research and learn something I would likely have never known or ultimately loved. That's friggin art... or something equally awesome. Thank you.
I'm sincerely thankful you enjoyed it :)
Engineering is just art with math and function
Something that I will always admire. Such masterpiece of human mind restores my faith in humanity. Looking at this sophisticated mechanism I always imagine not only the amount of efforts and genius ideas that were put in this to create it, but also a few times greater number of ideas and efforts that were discarded during the process. And this impresses me even more.
Beautiful and intricate designs that we will hinge on far into the future, the work of our predecessors are truly magnificent ❤
One Amazing piece of engineering artwork.
All topics always come together somehow to form something truly amazing
Very well put, I'm looking forward to seeing more of what you have to share. I'm glad to have found your channel, and my socks will also be subscribing.
When I studied engineering, I was shocked to find out that most of the basic principles upon which machines work, force, acceleration, heat, steam, combustion, sound, light, electricity, were all discovered by observation and brain power, centuries ago.
Right to even come up with this Idea to orient a spacecraft or whatever else is pretty wild but pretty simple at the same time. Takes a clever person to come up with this solution. And we’re absolutely standing on the shoulders of giants. When I watch ww2 and space race documentaries it blows me away.
It's just beautiful. Thanks.
I’m always amazed at how long the inertial navigation unit spins after we remove power from the fighter jets we work on.
This looks awesome and i think i can explain it:it spins and that spins the spiny spin to spin more spins per spin
Simply amazing engineering ❤
Absolute piece of art and engineering!❤
Superb Engineering.. Both mechanical and electrical.. Indeed a work of Art.
And this.... Has been shrunk down into something the size of a crumb. Your phone likely has one inside of it. It's also what allows quadcopters (Drones) to maintain stability.
Drones don't use gyroscopes, they use accelerometers (which measure acceleration). You can find information, but found with no spinning. 3 accelerometers, 1 for each axis.
Usually microscopic mass spring systems (mount spring mass spring mount) where the mass' position is measured using electronics and then uses a lot of math to get orientation, velocity, etc.
Edit: I wanted to clarify for anyone else that reads this, since a lot of people will imagine there's a really tiny spinning thing in there phones. The reason this gyroscope has been "shrunk down" to fit in your phone is because we don't use gyroscopes at all, we use microelectronics.
@@in4dalols247 no they use one at least mine used one although it was a helicopter
No, those are a set of flat accelerometers that are processed into faux gyro signals...
@@in4dalols247 And I think that even undersells just how small accelerometers in phones are. The little springs are literally etched in at the micrometer scale. Anybody going on a Wikipedia hunt, the term you're looking for is "micro-electromechanical systems" or "MEMS accelerometer"
And before someone says ring laser gyros can be really small, aint nobody putting that in a phone. Too expensive. And larger than a crumb.
Wheels within wheels....
Ezekiel?
Yes
This is SO crazy I wanna learn how to build this
Thats absolutely beautiful.
Love art and the hard sciences
I acquired one of these years ago. Of all my oddities that i have to 'show-and-tell' , it is by far my favorite. VERY old early generation American ingenuity! Everything you stated about your example piece is exactly how i feel about mine. 👍
This is art to me. Not the stupid modern stuff, this. Beauty in function, fascinating in form.
I think they're both great.
I feel like the point of the video is to just point out how artistic the STEM field can be. Not to shit on other types of "art" as you seem to be doing.
Lol.. beautiful speech, and his shirt says "wet beaver" 😅
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Thank you for appreciating the technicians and engineers who work on this technology. Very few people get to see amazing things like these
I wonder what the minimum integration error was on the best gyroscope based inertial guidance system. Was it better or worse than the MEMS accelerometers in smartphones?
Way back when, I worked on a stellar navigation system that had a CEP of 6 feet/hr. If I remember correctly, after 8 hours of flight, the largest error was ~20 feet.
I'm pretty sure that the best mems would fall short of what a real gyroscope can do for long term accuracy. Mems is just a couple accelerometers. Gyros lock the ring orientation to a reference.
Though mems can't get their rings stuck so that's a plus...
Navication gyros also get fed data from other systems to update them.
That said, with how accurately you can measure with ring laser gyros, you can now go hours without feeding corrections to an INS
@@joshuacheung6518 "Locking" vs differential measurements is a pretty meaningless difference when your lock drifts more then your integrated differential signal.
Nothing beats a good laser though, and those are also differential measurements.
We often think of older people to have been simple and not as smart as we are but then they made stuff like this almost a 80 years ago. No computers no cnc no nothing just wanting to make stuff and then making it. We should bring back this culture.
if you push and practice your mind can do amazing things. 55 years ago i learned to add numbers as fast as i read them. far faster than i could enter them in a calculater. i had a job where i added numbers about 3 hours a day. after a few months i noticed i knew the answer to short sets of about 5 numbers before i entered them, so i worked on being able to do longer strings. within a few more months there was no limit. that 3 hours turned into 20 minutes. once the numbers got over 6 digets i didn't trust myself but i would just subtotal and do more. sadly for me i lost that due to extreme illness and high fever 23 years ago. if i could do that most can.
btw to do that you can not break your focus unless you have a great memory
Which is why I despise the current era of nitwits who denigrate our elders and ancestors and think anything before 2005 is so barbaric and backwards it shouldn't exist.
Very much depends on the person.
Always learn everything I can from my old teacher, Mr. WetBeaver.
Everyday I find a new marvel of engineering.
I mean even the simple ballpoint pen is wonder to watch in action.
The moment you said it predates computers it went from really cool to astonishing
A version of this is changing yachting forever. No more rocking and rolling just flip the switch
That is pretty frickin cool lookin and obviously pretty complicated too. Neat!
this my guy right here, getting ya rocks off on revolutionary technology that merges the worlds of art and science!
The minds behind the technology must be complimented for such remarkable work. 😎💯💪🏿👍🏿
It’s amazing how such a device ends up in a phone or the idea of it. The advancements of science.
The even more amazing part is that these were made totally obsolete by a more advanced device called the ring laser gyroscope. It is a totally solid state device with no moving parts. It measures attitude and acceleration by using the special relativistic qualities of light, which moves at the same speed regardless of the movement of the platform.
Gyroscopes are super cool. And absolutely useful tool.
Bro is getting super philosophical and deep and then pops on screen with a shirt that says 'wet beaver'... LOL caught me off guard right there
All these hellfire targeting systems and gyros from planes alike are starting to come onto the TH-cam scene and they are absolutely beautiful.