Bearing Gyro Toy

By eclsnowman

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Bearing Gyro Toy

By eclsnowman

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Bearing Gyro Toy

By eclsnowman

at 2024-05-06
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: https://youtu.be/dK1gNuUYlB8 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.

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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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robbert
robbert
over 4 years
printing 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
eclsnowman
eclsnowman
over 4 years
Fyi I updated the 3mm bolt description to 45mm. I had mistakenly said it was 40mm in the earlier description.

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