This homemade product will be interesting, first of all, for young children. Especially if you put it together. In general, the manufacture of a rotary gyro from improvised means is a great way to have fun and usefully spend your free time. Despite the visual complexity of the entire structure, it is very simple to make, because, in fact, a gyroscope is an ordinary spinning top, only with a “secret”.
However, the principle of operation of the gyroscope itself is also quite simple: the flywheel rotates clockwise around its axis, which, in turn, is conjugated with the ring and performs rotational movements in the horizontal plane. This ring is rigidly fixed in another ring that rotates around the third axis. That’s the whole secret.
The manufacturing process of a rotary mechanical gyroscope
We cut two rings of the same width from the plastic pipe. You will also need a bearing that needs to be shed with superglue so that it does not spin. We press a wooden “pill” into the inner ring, in which in the center you need to drill a hole for a metal rod with pointed ends.
On one edge of the rod we put a piece of plastic tube (you can borrow from a ballpoint pen). In a plastic ring, we drill two holes for the rod and join with the rotating axis of the bearing using metal pipes of a larger diameter (pieces of telescopic antenna can be used).
Then we put on the main frame a second plastic ring, after making small cuts in it for a denser “fit”. At the last stage along the edges of the central axis we glue weighting agents for balance - steel balls. For a detailed gyroscope assembly process, see the video on our website.
