{"id":790,"date":"2010-07-01T17:12:28","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T17:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/?p=790"},"modified":"2010-07-01T16:14:07","modified_gmt":"2010-07-01T16:14:07","slug":"apples-iphone-4-gyroscope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/2010\/07\/01\/apples-iphone-4-gyroscope\/","title":{"rendered":"Apples iPhone 4 Gyroscope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/ChipworksMEMSgyroscopedie.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"Chipworks MEMS gyroscope die\" src=\"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/ChipworksMEMSgyroscopedie_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Chipworks MEMS gyroscope die\" width=\"449\" height=\"337\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After reading about the iPhone 4\u2019s gyroscope during WWDC, I have to admit I wasn\u2019t sure how such a thing would work.\u00a0 I\u2019ve only ever really encountered the spinning gyroscopes you get as a kid, and I couldn\u2019t really see something like that fitting in a phone!<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to this <a title=\"Mems gyroscope on wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mems_gyroscope\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia entry<\/a>, and\u00a0 <a title=\"iFixit.com on the iPhone 4 gyroscope\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ifixit.com\/Teardown\/iPhone-4-Gyroscope-Teardown\/3156\/1\" target=\"_blank\">this article on ifixit.com<\/a> the mystry is solved \u2013 worth a read if you feeling geeky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Apple iPhone 4 includes a MEMS vibrational gyroscope<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[31,420,121,301],"class_list":["post-790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-apple","tag-gyroscope","tag-iphone","tag-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=790"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":792,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions\/792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}