Grab the kids and give this paper gyroscope a try. It’s not an electronic sensor made of paper, but the modern equivalent of a spinning top. The frame remains stationary while the center ...

The project is a spinning top with an integrated persistence-of ... but detecting angular velocity with either gyroscope or accelerometer proved problematic. [Nathan’s] writeup of this is ...

Like a child's top, the toy gyroscope can "stand" on its tip. The reason is that the spinning mass (of the gyroscope and the top) resists a change in motion. (If you don't have firsthand ...

A gyroscope is a device consisting of a rapidly spinning wheel or disk mounted so that its axis can turn freely in all directions. As the axis turns the wheel remains stationary. Gyroscopes can be ...