On 9/21/08, Larry Doolittle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Guys - > > > On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 08:53:29PM -0400, evan foss wrote: > > On 9/21/08, Stuart Brorson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > > > - Larry > > > > _______________________________________________ > geda-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user > -- http://www.coe.neu.edu/~efoss/ http://evanfoss.googlepages.com/ _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
