Plans for building a Piezo Gyro?
01-24-2003, 04:18 PM
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Plans for building a Piezo Gyro?
If you want to save money... trust me. Just buy one.
You will need to start with something like the Tokin CG-16 (good luck finding a place to buy one unless you want a few thousand). This puts out a signal proportional to the rate of rotation around an axis. It costs about $30 I think. Then you will need a $10 microcontroller which requires a $30 programmer. And a circuit board - if you make it yourself it will cost about $20 for your first one; $30-$40 MINIMUM if you get one done professionally. Then you'll have some soldering and programming to do. Plus all of the helicopter's spinning metal parts generate a ton of vibration and electromagnetic noise that will really mess with everything.
$100 or whatever for a gyro is a VERY GOOD DEAL.
You will need to start with something like the Tokin CG-16 (good luck finding a place to buy one unless you want a few thousand). This puts out a signal proportional to the rate of rotation around an axis. It costs about $30 I think. Then you will need a $10 microcontroller which requires a $30 programmer. And a circuit board - if you make it yourself it will cost about $20 for your first one; $30-$40 MINIMUM if you get one done professionally. Then you'll have some soldering and programming to do. Plus all of the helicopter's spinning metal parts generate a ton of vibration and electromagnetic noise that will really mess with everything.
$100 or whatever for a gyro is a VERY GOOD DEAL.
