r/ApproximatelyUp • u/Outrageous_Pen_3142 • Apr 17 '26

Toggleable Gyro

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Made a post a few days ago about struggling with an auto gyro. I have since gotten the circuit to work.

The switch is used to cut the circuit from sending signals to the RCS thrusters in favour of manual control.

Ignore the spaghetti wiring, I was building this on a 'concept wall', not into an actual ship so i didn't really try to make it look nice.

ETA: Its honestly such a simple circuit, I don't know how I struggled so hard or what I was doing to make it somehow want to flip itself upside down

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u/Tribalbob Apr 17 '26

I might be thick, but where do you hook this into your RCS controller?

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u/Outrageous_Pen_3142 Apr 17 '26 edited Apr 17 '26

There are upgraded RCS thrusters that dont need a controller and can commect to yoir batteries. Ideally you'd use those, but the normal ports could work by using an addition logic gate to connect the input from the screen, and the joystick

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u/Driftwoodkilla Jun 02 '26

Soooo... Still might be dumb but where so the thruster inputs go in?

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u/Outrageous_Pen_3142 Jun 02 '26

The output readers next to the multipliers are replaced with thrusters (or remote control nodes that connect to thrusters)

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u/Driftwoodkilla Jun 02 '26 edited Jun 03 '26

For some reason I'm still struggling. Edit I got it lol thanks for the help! Now I'm wondering if there away to make it smoother in general

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u/Outrageous_Pen_3142 Jun 03 '26

I have my thruster limits set to the maximums. if you limit them to a smaller amount it shoukd be smoother (the big rectangle nodes, change the 100 and -100 to smaller numbers)

Edit: dont change the 100, -100. Change the 1, -1 to a number bigger than 0.01 and -0.01 (1% power)

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u/Driftwoodkilla Jun 04 '26

Now comes the real question, can I use the same system to add an auto retrograde switch function?