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Gyroscopic Forces Science Experiment / Toy
Education
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Description
I was discussing gyroscopic forces and angular momentum with my two boys (7 and 9). I wanted to give them a cool demonstration, and give them a toy with which they can experiment to help grasp the concept. So we sat down together and designed this. They have been having fun with it all afternoon, and I will admit... so have I.
Here is a video of it in action:
I have included the STL's, and other CAD formats (naitive Solidworks 2018, STEP, X_T, Fusion360 import). Feel free to modify, remix, etc. Have fun.
Materials and methods
Parts Required:
Printed Parts (I have plated the STL's for easy printing)
Qty:2 - 608 Skate Bearings (low friction bearing like whatwere used in old fidget spinners work best)
Qty:21 - 3/8" Hex nuts to act as flywheel mass (let me know if you want one for metric hardware as the weights)
Qty:1 - 3mm x 45mm long bolt
Qty:1 - 3mm hex nylock nut
Optional: A few 3mm washers to space out the sides if center rubs
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Comments
robbert commented agoprinting one as we speak. just printed the center part. you said 3 nuts will fit in the holes. but its possible to fit a stack of 3 m8 nuts wit a m8/25mm bolt inside greatly increasing the total weight mass
Eric Lien commented agoFyi I updated the 3mm bolt description to 45mm. I had mistakenly said it was 40mm in the earlier description.
Eric Lien published this design ago