#1245 Gyroscope--Learning Lab Copyright by Genius Toy Taiwan Co., Ltd.

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Gigo Learning Lab’s complete series includes 20 individual packages, as well as five
school sets. The special features of Gigo’s Learning Lab are as follows:
1. Using GIGO’s “building block” construction-based curriculum, every class has
a ready-to-assemble model, and includes time designed to promote individual
creativity.
2. Promotes thinking outside-the-box of the traditional educational framework by
learning innovation through play!
3. We are all innately good at something, so we should take into account both individual
development and the ability to work as part of a team effort.
4. Course levels are designed from elementary to difficult, combining a life sciences-
based curriculum with applications from daily life.
5. Experiment using Gigo’s “building blocks”, which can be used over and over again,
saving both time and effort.
6. Comes with Gigo’s newly developed 3D Smart Manual, which makes learning how to
intelligently assemble each model easier than ever before.
7. Learning Lab’s Cloud Platform allows systematic recording of learning progress.
We hope that kids can enthusiastically learn scientific knowledge through fun hands-
on experience, developing their problem-solving abilities, as well as a positive attitude
towards science. Our mission is to help children apply their newfound knowledge to
daily life, furthering their innovational skills and abilities.
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Creative Ability
can be Learned
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07. Ice Skater
08. Mars Rover
10. Monograph (2)
11. Spinning Top
Appendix: Learning Lab Packages
20. Monograph (4)
19. Robo Gyro
18. Flight Simulator
17. Gyrorector
16. Gyro Compass
15. Monograph (3)
14. Segway
13. Balance Game
12. Rope Walker
09. Robo Vibro
04. Spider Robot
05. Monograph (1)
06. Drawing Robot
03. Digging Machine
02. Fitness Machine
01. Vibrating Machine
Parts List
Index
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2. How to Use the Spanner ( 3 x AAA batteries not included are needed )
1. Use the "A" end of the spanner to
pull off the peg.
2. Use the "B" end of the spanner
to remove the battery out of the
holder.
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Short Frame
Dual Frame
Square Frame
11-hole Rod
5-hole Rod (Grey)
5-hole Rod (Green)
5-hole Rod-III (Grey)
5-hole Rod-III (Green)
3-­hole Cross Rod (Grey)
3-­hole Cross Rod (Green)
Bended Rod (Grey)
Bended Rod (Green)
Vibro Motor
Robot Head Top
Robot Head Bottom
Robot Wrist (Green)
Robot Hand (Green)
Robot Hand Fixer (Green)
Vibro Base
Robot Foot Top
Robot Foot Bottom
Robot Armor
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Robot Wrist (Blue)
Robot Hand (Blue)
Robot Hand Fixer (Blue)
Gyro Cloak
Gyro Base
Hub
Two-in-one Converter (Grey)
Two-in-one Converter (Green)
Hinge (Green)
Hinge (Blue)
90 Degree Adaptor-II
Loose Axle
S Connecting Peg (Blue)
S Connecting Peg (Yellow)
Hollow Tube 3CM
Paper Card
Spanner
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P a r t s L i s t

3. 01S e s s i o n Brainstorming
What will you do to squash a
bit of clay?
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Vibrating Machine
The final step of road construction is
leveling the ground to make the passing
vehicles and pedestrians move smoothly.
A vibration roller is used to make the road
surface solid and smooth viathumping.
The invention of the vibration machine
not only accelerates the construction
pace but also greatly improves working
efficiency. With the high-speed impact
force generated from vibration while
continuously working on the ground
a smooth road can be realized. The
principle of vibration was once applied to forging swords in ancient
times. The sword maker would continuously hit the sword to enhance its
strength and make it sharper. In our daily life, there are objects that are
able to vibrate everywhere, such as cellphones and loudspeakers.
Some major parameters to express vibration include frequency and
amplitude. The former one represents the number of vibration per unit
time, namely, a higher frequency indicates a faster knocking speed; the
latter one means the extent
of vibration, that is to say, a
larger amplitude may produce a
stronger impact force.
The simplest way to produce
vibration is to use a vibrating
motor. Through installing a
centrifugal heavy object on the
motor center, vibration may occur
due to the shaking motor when it
rotates rapidly.
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Note: please prepare a bit of clay.
Assembly
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Place the vibrating machine in a basin
filled with shallow water and observe the
ripples generated on the water surface.
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Prepare a bit of clay and observe how long
the vibration roller may take to even out the
clay.

5. 02S e s s i o n Brainstorming
H o w m a n y d a y s d o y o u
exercise every week?
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F i t n e s s M a c h i n e
Since modern people eat quite well, the rate of obesity increases as years
go by, resulting in the emergence of various sports equipment. Most of
these equipments are used indoors despite the weather conditions, such
that people can do exercises even on a rainy or windy day. Therefore, lots
of people get a fitness equipment so they can workout at home without
going out.
Sports can help people reduce fat
and strengthen muscular endurance.
But do you know that if a fat person
exe r c i s e s t o g e t h e r w i t h a t h i n
one, the fatter one may burn more
calories than the thin person does.
For example, a 50-kg person may
burn about 235 kilocalories while
a 70-kg person will burn about 330
kilocalories by jogging for 30 minutes.
Quiz:
During the spring holiday, Watt had indulged in extravagant eating and
drinking, which gained him 2 kg of fat. Therefore, he wanted to spend
one month by controlling his diet and exercising for 30-60 minutes to
lose weight. According to the doctor’s instructions, the maximum calories
allowable to be reduced a day is 500 Kcal, but he has a dinner party with
his colleagues on Fridays, so he may gain another 250 Kcal on the party,
not to mention the time of exercising. Could you come up with a diet-
fitness plan for Watt?
Calories burnt by
exercising for 30 mins
180 Kcal
210 Kcal
240 Kcal
275 Kcal
330 Kcal
600 Kcal
Sports type
Aerobic Dancing
Basketball
Exercise Bikes
Climbing
Treadmill
Swimming
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Increase stress on the fitness machine
with your fingers to experience the forced
exercises.
創作完成
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Try to do this: Increase the weight on a fitness
machine successively to see how much weight
can suppress the equipment model.

7. 03S e s s i o n Brainstorming
Do you know how sound is
generated?
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D i g g i n g M a c h i n e
Watt who was sitting near the window
was at trac ted by a sudden sound
while he was listening to the teacher
attentively. Looking outside, he realized
the road near the school was under
construction.
The constructors turned up the asphalt
roads with vibration force from an
earth auger, but a high-decibel noise
was generated in return, which was
transmitted in the air and reached
Watt’s ears. Of course, the constructors
were the first to be affected, thus it
may result in severe damage of their
hearing ability and make them unable
to concentrate due to their long-term
exposure in such working conditions.
Generally, people can receive a sound
frequency of 20-20kHz, however, the noise frequency generated by an
earth auger is within 1-3kHz of which people are quite sensitive to, that’s
why Watt got distracted by it; more importantly, the strength of the noise
is up to 85 decibels, which may damage our hearing ability, so Watt felt
uncomfortable upon hearing it.
Watt can’t help thinking: “Are there any
methods to prevent the workers’ hearing
ability from being damaged in such working
conditions? We may create an earth auger
to make people unable to perceive it, or
separate the zones to be drilled into vacuum
where sound can’t be transmitted.” Watt was
pulled backed into reality by the sharp sound
made by the teacher when he was deeply
absorbed in thinking.
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Modify your digging machine and make
the sound of digging lower.
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Use a model to hit blocks of different sizes
a n d s h a p e s a n d r e c o r d t h e to n e l eve l
generated.

9. 04S e s s i o n Brainstorming
Do you know how spiders
move on their webs?
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S p i d e r R o b o t
After watching the movie Spider Man, Watt’s curiosity about spiders was
greatly aroused. He was curious about why spider man could move and
climb on walls and he was able to capture preys with the flexible silk
coming out of his wrist.
Watt realized that spiders were not as
simple as what we imagined after referring
to some articles from magazines and on the
internet. Spiders can be categorized into
weaver spiders and wandering spiders. As
specified in the literary explanation, weaver
spiders are capable of weaving webs while
the wandering ones won’t weave but protect
themselves by moving around or utilizing the
terrains. There was news that some people
nearly died from being bitten by spiders
when they were eating bananas.
Although spiders seem to be terrifying for
people, most of the spiders can only poison some insects or tiny animals,
which won’t hurt us human beings. Therefore, we don’t need to feel scared
when seeing them and spiders often avoid rather than attract people
unless they are provoked.
We can often see spider webs in the
room corners but seldom see spiders
on them, because their targets are the
small insects in the room and they
will inject poisonous saliva
from their mouthparts once
insects are caught in the web
to prevent them from fleeing
away.
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Vary the model feet into different length
or degrees; and observe whether the
operation of the model would change?
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Count the number of times your model hits
the table in a second.

11. S e s s i o n
M o n o g r a p h
Model
Review
Design
Concept
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Evaluation
Model
Design
Model
Creation
Winner!
My Artwork
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Design a simple musical box based on the learned models
and principles.
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01. Vibrating Machine
03. Digging Machine
02. Fitness Machine
04. Spider Robot
Model
Review

12. 06S e s s i o n Brainstorming
Have you ever done something
amazing unintentionally?
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D r a w i n g R o b o t
Have you ever seen a piece of action paint?
It is a painting style that appeared
in New York in the mid-1940s, thus
it is also called New York School
or Abstract Expression, which
was quite popular in American or
European painting circles in the
1950s.
Free and bold, full of passion
and energy, this painting style
represents the American stand
on liber ty and the boldness to
innovate. Different from traditional art appreciation, it focuses on the
spirit of excitation and freestyle rather than realism. During the painting, it
requires no objects for references and the author could draw whatever he
wants. Their works are records of their actions and dynamic processes of
their creation.
The representative painter, J.Pollock (1912-1956), preferred to nail the
canvas on the ground and walk and dance around it with stickers which
were dipped in paint, to make the
pigments flow randomly.
Do you want to imitate his painting
style? Please prepare a piece of
paper and water color in advance,
then spray or drop different colors
on the paper, by which you can
create your own work of art by using
any method you like (paint brush,
hands and feet, branches, etc.) to
change the painting style and form.
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Match three brushes of different colors
on the model on the same paper and
observe the generated tracks on it.
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Install the paint brush on the model and
observe its tracks while operating for 10
seconds; then do the experiment again to see
whether the results are the same.

14. 07S e s s i o n Brainstorming
H o w w i l l y o u c o n t r o l t h e
turning action when you are
skating or riding a bicycle?
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I c e S k a t e r
Have you ever imagined flying freely in the
sky like a bird? Have you ever run together
with the wind? Do you feel that you can’t
experience the feeling since you have no
wings or that you run too slowly? All right,
here I will introduce to you an amazing
object named skating shoes, which enables
you to move on the ground like a flying bird
or a blowing wind, and even like dancing a
ballet.
Skating shoes are of two types: ice skates
and roller skates. The former one is mainly
used for skating on ice, which has a blade
attached to the bottom. When we skate on
ice, the ice surface may melt into water due to the pressure on it, thus
we can skate on it easily and freely.
The other type is called roller skate which is applied on land. There
are a row of rollers attached to the bottom to help us move forward;
this kind of skates are frequently seen in our daily life; especially in
the parks where we can see
kids skate around happily on
their roller skates.
After we told you about the
skates, dear kids, are you
eager to wear it to play in the
parks? Don’t forget to wear
your safety cap and protectors,
by which you can have fun
while ensuring your safety.
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Can you make your model move in
8-shape?
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M a k e y o u r m o d e l t u r n l e f t o r r i g h t
successfully.

16. 08S e s s i o n Brainstorming
What will you do to obtain
materials when you want to
know the real-time conditions
but can’t be on the site?
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M a r s R o v e r
Have you ever seen the Mars probe in the movie, Mission to Mars?
Mars is one of the eight planets
of our solar system, ranking
four th from the sun, whic h
is also the planet closest to
the ear th other than Venus.
Mars has been extraordinarily
attractive to us human beings,
because it is a planet whose
composition is quite similar to
Earth. The inclination between
Mars’ equator and ecliptic plane
is in close proximity to that of
the Earth, thus there are cycles of four seasons on the planet; meanwhile,
its rotation period lasts 24 hours and 27 minutes, making a day’s length on
Mars almost the same as that on Earth.
The scientists have established a Mars probe to explore whether we can
land on Mars, and they believe the planet can be investigated in detail
with the probe and they have already obtained lots of data and pictures
for analysis. The research has discovered that there were once thick
atmosphere layer s above M ar s and
a great deal of water on it. However,
the atmosphere and liquid water are
disappearing gradually, so the planet
which might have been possible for
mic ro organisms to inhabit has now
become a world of cold and bleak deserts.
Since you have already learned more
about Mars and the tasks of the Mars
probe, now it ’s your turn to take an
adventure to fly into the vast universe.
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Add parts of other functions in the probe
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Try to make your model operate as per the
fixed routes.

18. 09S e s s i o n Brainstorming
How can you produce regular
vibration?
組裝
步驟
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R o b o V i b r o
V i b r a t i o n i s a c o m m o n p h y s i c a l
phenomenon. We can feel the quick
and slight vibration just by placing our
hands on the equipment or household
applianc es in operation. G enerally
speaking, vibration is the side-effect
caused by the movement of mechanical
objects or frictional force. We all expect
t o r e d u c e t h e i m p a c t s c a u s e d b y
vibration, since vibration is unpredictable
and accompanied with noise. Inventors
have developed lots of shock-absorbing
products, such as shock absorber on
vehicle wheels, and shock-absorbing air
sole of sports shoes.
Nevertheless, vibration is necessary sometimes and it is often applied
in daily life, for example, cellphones in
mute mode, massage armchairs and
electric- driven toothbrushes are all
products that employ vibration.
Although the naked eyes can’t usually
observe if an object is vibrating, it is in
a state of motion which is less affected
by frictional force and makes the object
move. Please try to do the following
experiment: place a vibrator on an
inclined plane, observe if it can stay
steady owing to the frictional force; then
turn on the vibrator and observe whether
it will fall down.
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Change the motion of a model and see
whether its tracks changes.
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Record the motion tracks of the model and
observe whether its motion tracks are fixed.

20. S e s s i o n
M o n o g r a p h
Model
Review
Design
Concept
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Evaluation
Model
Design
Model
Creation
Winner!
My Artwork
4039
Design a divination machine based on learned models and
principles.
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06. Drawing Robot
08. Mars Rover
07. Ice Skater
09. Robo Vibro
Model
Review

21. 11S e s s i o n Brainstorming
Why will a spinning top stop
after rotation?
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S p i n n i n g To p
The spinning top is a toy that has an inverse cone shape and can
rotate continuously around the center axial. The balance of a top is
based on the working principle of a gyroscope, namely, when the
top is rotating under force, the sum of the centrifugal forces from
all directions achieve the balance, that’s why it can stand on its tip;
whereas it will fall down when the driving force disappears.
Consequently, the key to play with a spinning top is to utilize various
techniques to produce the driving force for its rotation, including the
simplest way of pressing the tip with the hand to advanced ones of
throwing the top via a rope or whipping it after it has already rotated.
In which the most classical type is the whipping top. First twine the
strings around the center axial; then throw it strongly and hold it to
produce the rotating force rapidly, by which the top can rotate on the
ground.
A traditional top is made of wood, but now plastic or metal have taken
its place. Sometimes people often add colorful decorations or sound
effects to make it more interesting. But no matter how it evolves, the
most enjoyable part of playing with a spinning top lies in the high-
speed balance and exciting crash among them.
Next let’s make a top turn round and round with the toy blocks and
gyroscope.
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Make a launcher for your own top to
guarantee its smooth release.
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Record how long it will take before the top can
stand successfully after the model is switched
on?

23. 12S e s s i o n Brainstorming
Can you keep your balance
when you stand on one leg?
Why?
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R o p e W a l k e r
Wat t ’s u n c l e i s a st u nt m a n, w i t h
e x p e r t i s e i n t i g h t - r o p e w a l k i n g .
Every time Watt watched his uncle’s
performance onsite, walking on the
tight rope high above with a long stick
for keeping his balance, he feels like
it is so dangerous. Although each
performance had brought his uncle
much applause, Watt always worries
about him.
O n c e , W a t t f o l l o w e d h i s u n c l e
backstage for preparation. Finding the
stick to be quite heavy, he hid the stick secretly and thought his uncle
could walk on the rope better without it.
His uncle couldn’t find his stick when he was going to perform on
stage after his break, so he had to force himself to do it. After the
lights went on, his uncle appeared after a long period of time, and
Watt found his uncle more nervous and tremendously sweating.
Without the stick in hand, his uncle stretched out his arms and moved
gingerly, but unfortunately, he
lost his balance and fell down
on the ground, badly injured.
A f t e r t h a t , W a t t b l a m e d
himself for what he had done,
and he realized that the heavy
stick was the key to keep the
balance.
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Can the model move on the rope steadily
if you change the counter balance?
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Test whether your model can walk on the rope
smoothly.

25. 13S e s s i o n Brainstorming
It is difficult to locate the centroid
of an irregular object; how many
methods are there to locate the
centroid of a basketball?
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B a l a n c e G a m e
The centroid is the center of mass of an object.
Due to the different shapes, structure, texture
and density of different objects, the centroid is
not always in the central point of an object, or
not even inside the object, for instance, objects
with a shape of a doughnut have their centroid
in the center area which is empty.
To locate the centroid, we can string the object
above, by which we can get a line vertical to
the ground; then hang the object on another
point to get the
second line, so the joint area of the two
lines is the centroid. The centroid varies
with the change of object shape.
A r o b o t g y r o i n o p e r a t i o n c a n
appropriately resist the effects of external
force and maintain balance owing to the
rotational inertia caused by the rotating
flywheel. Different toy blocks attached on the robot in operation may
change its centroid; accordingly, the
original balance will be affected as
the centroid changes. More, it can’t
remain standing if the displacement
of the centroid is too large.
Compete with your friend to attach
blocks on it as many as you can, see
whose robot won’t fall down with the
most blocks attached.
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after you enlarge it or make it longer.
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Place the model on your finger to see whether
it can keep balance.

27. 14S e s s i o n Brainstorming
Is there any way for people
who can’t ride a bicycle to
ride a Segway?
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How relaxed and comfortable it will be to
enjoy the beautiful scene and breathe fresh
air when you and your family drive along a
mountain road; however, it also makes people
feel dizzy due to the bumpy road condition,
and people may often be unable to walk
steadily.
It seems to be quite easy for people to walk
and we have learned to do so since we were
kids. As a matter of fact, it requires many
organs in our body to work closely. Human
beings keep balance by utilizing the visual
sense from the eyes, touch sense from the
nerves of the body, sense to accelerate from
the vestibule of the inner ear and information
integration by the cerebellum to control the
action of our muscles to maintain the balance.
Taking a walk as an example, to avoid the
unbalance of our body leaning forward, we keep balance through the
continuous steps based on the close cooperation of our eyes, nervous
system, ears, cerebellum and muscle actions.
As technologies develop constantly, engineers have realized the
complicated balance system in many types of machinery. Segway is an
assistant transportation means for individuals, and people can control the
direction and speed through swaying the body when standing on it.
Segway is actually the implementation of the human balance system. The
gyro on it helps us sense the leaning direction and angles, just like our
eyes, nervous system and vestibule of the inner ear, and its motor works
like our muscles, which keeps the Segway balanced based on the correct
rotation direction and speed. What’s more, the electric CPU works like
our cerebellum does, which processes the data for balance from the gyro,
and controls the motor to rotate after precise computation.
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a Segway to observe the influences on its
actions.
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Observe the speed and steady degree of a
Segway moving forward, and observe the
difference in them when going up and down a
slope.

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Design a cable car with a gyro installed in the rope bottom
based on the learned models and principles.
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13. Balance Game
12. Rope Walker
14. Segway
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30. 16S e s s i o n Brainstorming
What methods can determine
the direction when you lose
your way?
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G y r o C o m p a s s
Ever since the ancient times, due to
the increased population, climate change
and exhaustion of resources, people had
to leave their places of residence and
journey outside to seek for new habitats
full of natural resources and suitable
for immigration. With human civilization
and curiosity to seek new knowledge,
many explorers have stepped boldly to
explore the unknown under a condition
of insufficient information.
The thing we should concern ourselves most is getting lost in a journey of
unknown destinations. Generally, it is not hard to judge the direction since there
are many objects on land that can be used as references. For example, heading to
a hill in the distance, we can arrive successfully as long as we can see the target
although the journey may be tough and difficult. However, in areas such as a
desert, ocean, sky or even outer space, it becomes the top priority to be aware of
the direction we are heading to.
A compass is designed to solve the problem. Generally, there are two types, one
type determines the direction based on the interaction between a magnetic field
sensor and the earth magnetic field; the other type works by depending on an
exquisite mechanical structure and physical principles. Representatives of the
first type of compass include the compass used in ancient times, and the electric
compass built in smart phones in
modern times. The second type
includes the ancient southward
pointing cart, as well as the gyro
compass model which will be
discussed in this lesson. Gyro
compass is often applied in large-
scale ships. It has the advantages
of not being disturbed by the ship’s
own magnetic field. Moreover, the
direction it points at is the magnetic
north pole but not the true north.
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Modify your model as a lever measurement
tool.
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Try to shake the model and feel the force
which enables the pointer inside the gyro
compass to fix the direction.

32. 17S e s s i o n Brainstorming
W h a t m e t h o d s c a n t e l l
whether the table or ground is
horizontal or not?
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G y r o r e c t o r
When a pilot flies a plane, he
should be always quite aware
of his direction; taking off or
landing and even moving the
aircraft leftward or rightward
are of great importance. If he
lost his sense of direction,
i t m a y r e s u l t i n r i s k s o f
disorientation in f light, or
eve n c au s e s eve r e f li g ht
safety crisis once he makes
mistakes in taking off or landing.
However, flying in air is different from driving on land where one can
determine one’s position and direction using various reference points,
for example, landmarks, size of hills in the distance can all help us
determine the direction easily. However, when the plane rises up to a
certain degree, it is all white outside the cockpit, so it is not easy to
find reference points.
A gyro horizon is a device designed for solving the problem. Usually,
its round display board is divided into two parts, with the upper part
colored in blue to represent the sky and the bottom part in deep color
to indicate the horizon line. There are two horizontal lines referring
to the aerofoil in the middle part of the display board; a small point
between the two lines represents the plane nose.
Based on the inertia of a gyro, the small point
in blue part indicates that the plane is rising;
conversely, it means the plane is landing if
the point is below the horizon line. Moreover,
the clockwise and counterclockwise rotation
indicates if the plane is flying leftward and
rightward respectively.
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gyrorector and make it rotate freely, and
then observe its parallel conditions to the
ground.
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Exert force to tilt the gyro, observe whether
the force becomes larger or smaller if the
angle of inclination is increased.

34. 18S e s s i o n Brainstorming
What differences are there in
the design of an airplane and
a helicopter?
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F l i g h t S i m u l a t o r
The Wright brothers finished
their first controlled powered
flight by utilizing the fixed-
wing aircraft, making a great
step for aircraft engineering,
thus they are regarded as the
inventors of the modern plane.
At that time, they believed that
the key items to be solved
included designs for the motors
and the wings, as well as how
to control the plane.
To maintain the plane’s balance, they observed how birds flew, and
found birds to change the angle of the ends of their wings to make
their bodies roll right or left. Therefore, they designed the plane wing
to be able to tilt toward the inside of the turning directions just like the
birds did.
According to the initial concept, a pilot shall lay on the wings of the
lower layer to reduce the air resistance during the flying. Once the
landing process is completed, a pilot has to hold the plane body tightly
and suspend himself in the air at the opening preserved at the bottom
wing so as to land. After
numerous experiments, the
pilots improved their landing
into position with the head
of the plane forward.
Therefore, does it sound
that the trial flights are quite
dangerous and c an’t be
fallible?
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Make a runway to observe whether the model
can move forward along the runway.

36. 19S e s s i o n Brainstorming
What factors may limit the
Robo Gyro to move forward or
make a turn?
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R o b o G y r o
The basic structure of a gyro consists of a
flywheel of high-speed revolution. According to
the principle of momentum conservation, a strong
inertia may emerge in the gyro when the fly wheel
rotates at a high speed to prevent the external
force from changing its direction of the gyro.
The inertia varies with the following variables:
- A larger mass of flywheel leads to larger inertia;
- A larger rotation diameter of the flywheel leads
to larger inertia;
- A larger rotating speed of the flywheel leads to
larger inertia.
To make the inertia large enough, we have to
supply extremely high rotating speed for the
flywheel under the premise of the fixed shape
and mass of a flywheel. In the gyro motor in this
teaching material, we utilized a battery to supply
enough rotation speed to achieve the purpose. This works in the same
principle like when we twined the top with long string and pull forcefully,
in order to provide a higher initial rotation
speed to maintain the inertia, by which we
can prolong the time of balance.
In the gyro robot we designed, when it is
going to lean toward one direction due
to gravity, the inertia generated by high-
speed rotating flywheel will make it lean to
the opposite direction to realize balance.
Therefore, the designed robot can not only
walk steadily on the plane but also keep
balance on a tight string without falling
down.
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place the Robo Gyro on the string to see
whether it can walk steadily.
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How long will it take for the Robo Gyro
walking on the ground?

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My Artwork
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Design a robot that is able to indicate the horizon condition
based on learned models and principles.
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