One for the Submariners........Pocket SINS

[slim]

Take a look at this:

The tiny chip that can replace GPS satellites | Mail Online

=DThink of the space this could save=D

More room for the tinnies

 

[witsend]

That's going to mess up my fascination with space time and having to update the time.

 

[Passed-over_Loggie]

No clues to the price and commercial availability, then.

 

[Seaweed]

All sorts of things one would like to know, but won't be told, like how robust current models are (it's a rough life being an artillery shell) and what rate of drift the accelerometers have, translated into geographical terms related to time of flight etc. I guess it will be like GPS, mil use first and eventually commercialisation.

 

[bollotom]

"Contains 3 gyroscopes" FFS. How?? This will no doubt start a new arms race.

 

[Passed-over_Loggie]

I would imagine that they are super miniature, super accurate Piezo electric gyroscopes like thay put in those 10 quid toy helicopters.

 

[Seaweed]

I was wondering how the gyro was achieved ..

Vibrating structure gyroscope - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[slim]

I was wondering how the gyro was achieved ..

Vibrating structure gyroscope - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Very nice but the sums made my brain hurt

 

[Seaweed]

I put it up because I, for one, had no idea there were these different miniaturisable ways of achieving the gyroscope effect. Amongst other things I suppose that as long as one could calibrate the start position this could be included in a pet's microchip instead of gps, to the benefit of owners whose pets go missing. Other more sinister applications as well of course.