Gyroscope

Description

The gyroscope is capable of measuring how quickly the phone is being turned. It measures the rate of rotation of the phone and returns values in radians per second about the x axis, the y axis and the z axis. This rate of rotation is also known as the Angular Velocity, so the gyroscope can tell us the speed of rotation of the phone. By extension, if the speed of rotation is any number greater than 0, we can infer that the phone is being turned.

The x, y and z axes of a standard smartphone

Blocks

Events

when Gyroscope Changes

Whenever the phone is turned, or rotated, the Changes event will fire.

Properties

By default the gyroscope sensor is turned on, but the enabledproperty can be used to read and write new values to the gyroscope, thus allowing you to turn it on or off.

Property	Type	Default
set Enabled	Bool	true
get Enabled	Bool

Property	Type	Description
Alpha	Number	Rotation about the y-axis
Beta	Number	Rotation about the x-axis
Gamma	Number	Rotation about the z-axis

Property	Type	Description
X	Number	Angular velocity about the X axis
Y	Number	Angular velocity about the Y axis
Z	Number	Angular velocity about the Z axis