Re: Gyroscope from 3 hard drives.

Jason Stanidge wrote:
"Dave (from the UK)" <see-my-signature@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote in message news:4454f843@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

I've often thought of putting 3 hard drives (preferably fast ones) so
the platters all spin at 90 degrees to each other.

What would happen? Would this tend to sit wherever you placed it and not
fall under gravity?


What made you jump to this conclusion?

I was mistakenly thinking the rotation on one axis would stop it falling in that plane, so if there were 3 orthogonal gyroscopes it could not fall.

I guess it would be difficult to rotate in any direction.

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