gimbals the gold percussion instruments found at top any standard drum set which
wait sorry let me try that again gimbals the tiny metal or plastic cups that
people wear on their fingers to protect them while sewing which wait wrong again
well how am I supposed to know all of this stuff One Last Time gimbals pivoted
support mechanisms that allow attached objects to be rotated around a central
axis but if that definition sent your head spinning around its Central axis
like it did to mine here's a plain English one it lets an object let's say
a drink stay oriented one way even when
whatever it's mounted to is rotating and
cup holders that don't spill when a ship is swaying back and forth in the ocean
are just the beginning those who have seen our video about Optical image
stabilization will already be aware that miniature gyroscopic sensors make
greater stability possible in cameras by
monitoring and affecting lens position in response to stimuli this process is
remarkably similar to other systems like one's responsible for keeping commercial
airliners autopilot programs constantly aware of the horizon or those that keep
large luxury cruise liners from tipping over usually and triple gimbal support
mounts known as Gyros that's better make it possible for
an item to rotate completely free of its
mounting allowing something like a a drone mounted camera to not only be
stabilized up and down pitch left and
right y but also on the third roll axis
meaning that the camera shot stays level even when the Airborne platform it's
attached to is altering its angle dramatically to get like that sick pan
shot so gimbals that are paired with sensors and capable of manual adjustment
of the orientation of the mounted object in addition to providing resistance to a
change in orientation are called motored systems and you can find them on more
than just drones I mean even rocket propulsion systems use them to allow
thrust to be applied to the rocket ship in different directions as needed but
what do drones and Rockets have in common well they're both complicated and
expensive so if the goal is to build a better selfie stick or whatever the
other type of gimbal you might encounter is a motorless one these systems rely on
precise balance and sometimes even user
intervention directly to keep them still and they are less capable of
compensating for sudden aggressive movements but they are lighter and less
expensive when a motored gimbal isn't required which still doesn't explain why
the Blair Witch Project looked like absolute garbage none of this stuff is
new and even though it's taken until now for many mainstream folks to realize
that they're surrounded by gyroscopes and gimbals there are drawings of ink
pots that never tip over going back thousands of years cool hey you know
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