Vertigo is a data recorder designed for use in schools. It records the sort of data that a black box recorder does. It logs GPS, acceleration and gyro data. This can be combined in a number of ways by MATLAB software to give multiple displays of the recorded data.
As a teacher this tool gives my students the chance to log in real detail the motion of anything. I have told a few classes about it and after the half term holiday I will be looking at the proposals for how it can be used.
The first project using the VERTIGO was carried out by a Higher Physics student Glen. She wanted to show how Newton's second law could be used to measure the mass of people in space. This gave us a chance to use just one sensor on the vertigo, acceleration in the x direction. The data was imported into a spreadsheet then extracted by sorting by data type and sorting to find the maximum x acceleration. Choosing such a simple experiment first was a real benefit because it allowed us to study how the raw data was stored and how to separate it.
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