Gyraline, anyone tried it?

[Richyvrlimited]

Stumbled across this earlier today.

Have done some reading online and whilst reviews are sparse there are some good ones on a lotus forum.

Wondering if anyone here had tried the system and had any success with it.

https://gyraline.com/products/the-case?variant=493...

[GreenV8S]

I was very sceptical about it - the method it uses is highly susceptable to integration errors and doesn't seem at all practical to me. I tried it anyway a few months ago to see whether they'd come up with some clever solution. The results I got were garbage, so I guess that's a "no".

[donkmeister]

It's only suitable for getting your car to a good enough state to drive it somewhere to have the alignment done properly. E.g. if you've done suspension/steering work.

[Richyvrlimited]

Ah fair enough thank you.

I was hoping - maybe naively - it's be a simpler solution than setting up strings for a DIY alignment.

[GreenV8S]

Richyvrlimited said:

I was hoping - maybe naively - it's be a simpler solution than setting up strings for a DIY alignment.

Inertial and gyroscopic sensors are nowhere near accurate enough for this approach to work with current technology - integration errors make that a complete non-starter. What might work IMO is 3-d scanner with some dedicated logic to recognise the position and orientation of wheels. These scanners seem to be developing very rapidly and I think they're at the point now where you can walk around a car and get a closed map of the external skin. Recognising which bits are wheels seems very doable. I haven't seen anyone do it yet, though.

[donkmeister]

The cost of that would pay for a lot of alignments though!

Interestingly, when I had impressions taken for a mouthguard last year the dentist used a 3D scanner about the size of an electric toothbrush. When my guard arrived it was pushed down onto a 3D printed model of my upper jaw.

No more "bite down into the mould" stuff!

[Richyvrlimited]

in a change of tack I found the following site:

https://www.diyfabshop.com/alignment-kit

my 3d printer is getting a workout currently....!