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Comment by MayeulC

Except it's not really gyroscopes, but gyrometers. The literature is very sloppy with this, but gyroscopes give you an angle, while gyrometers give you an angular velocity.

Using a gyroscope, you can look at it an hour after starting it, and understand how your orientation changed. Using a gyrometers, you need to continuously integrate the result (including the measurement error) to get your orientation: it's far less precise and tends to drift. Both laser and mems gyrometers suffer from this.

Besides this, the video is full of slop and likely AI-narrated. Someone mentioned the bacteria bit, I can also mention the weird-looking PCB image, where traces do not connect correctly to the chip.

parent MayeulC 19 days ago

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