This is part of a kinetic sculpture I designed called Digital Rain (the rest is my gyroid construction set, listed as a "remixed from"). It's best experienced in person, but since it's in my basement for now, a video will have to do: https://youtu.be/fdcw1tt5CR4
Being modular, you can make this as tall as you want (mine is 10 units high, or about four feet). I power it with a 12V gear motor I picked up off eBay that I run at 6V to get about 15 RPM. It only takes a few watts of power. It's pumping about 1,500 5mm steel bearing balls.
| HelixPump.scad | 9.5KB | |
| HelixPumpBot.stl | 3.1MB | |
| HelixPumpCollector.stl | 222.0KB | |
| HelixPumpDrain.stl | 18.0KB | |
| HelixPumpFinial.stl | 2.7MB | |
| HelixPumpInjector.stl | 217.9KB | |
| HelixPumpLink.stl | 15.8KB | |
| HelixPumpRotor.stl | 5.4MB | |
| HelixPumpStator.stl | 10.9MB | |
| HelixPumpTop.stl | 1.6MB | |
| HelixPumpTrack.stl | 128.3KB |
