Universal, 2 Gyro Image stabilizer

Step 6 Possible improvements

Removing the platters and putting a steel or brass disk instead. It would require removing the arm and modifying electronics.

Of course another high speed DC motor with heavy disk would work as well...

Oct 8th: A single gyro stabilizer is finished: look at the instructable: www.instructables.com/id/Single-HD-Gyro-Image-stabilizer/

On stronger motors: CD/DVD and HDD spindle motors are being hacked by the RC model plane community. With thicker wiring and replacing the ceramic magnet ring with Neodymium magnets they seem to reach up to a whopping 400 W output. Machining of a new rotor (bell) and controller ('esc') is required +a high output battery pack (LiPo), which would make a gyro project no longer low budget nor fast to assemble. It could provide another dramatic reduction in size and weight though. Link:www.flyelectric.ukgateway.net/machin.htm

Comments

[Marsh]

Brilliant!
The only drawbacks I see are power consumption and weight, but this is an inspiration! I've been looking for a stabilization device for my mountianbike. I'll check into finding and stripping down some smaller drives and seeing if they'll run on smaller batteries & still be effective.

[mdgnys]

Heres an idea ive done in the past ill make an ible about it soon. But a gyroscope. you know likt the retro toy. haha Then get a trypod sized screw and a belt motor and let it run pretty simple and easy

[BobS]

If you want to find out if a hard drive, or another motor with rotating device would be suitable, turn it on and try to turn the axis of rotation by hand. You can easily feel the resistance against the change in position. The amount of resistance felt shows if the device is suitable for the project. To stabilize a bike would require a huge powerful motor, but I would not test ride it in heavy traffic. It would react very different from normal!

[rblee]

"To stabilize a bike would require a huge powerful motor, but I would not test ride it in heavy traffic. It would react very different from normal!"

You mean a funeral precession? Boom! Boom!

[Marsh]

Actually the stabilization device was to stabilize my video camera' on my mountain bike.

[fety]

Bob, do you think hds with more internal platters would affect the way it corrects in a positive way?

[BobS]

3 things determine the amount of centripal force (which determines the gyro effect): Speed (RPM), mass and diameter. So a multi platter 5"25 7200 RPM HD would be a stronger gyro than a single platter 5200 laptop HD.

[tezzz]

Further thinking, As my small camera is a disc drive I will only need one on the bottom at right angles Hmmmmmm

[tezzz]

Very Good! I'll file this away in my head-file for future use I have a small video camera I might check out laptop drives