What do you get when you throw together the Amazing Gyroscopic Cube Gears and the Fantastical Heart gears and throw in a bunch of hearts for good measure???
You get the ultimate 3D printed mechanical Valentine of course!!
After designing the Fantastical Heart Gears for my wife last Valentines Day, I wanted to create something even more wild for her this year.
I took inspiration from my earlier creations and thought it would be awesome if I could have the heart suspended on an arrow and rotating.
Well, it all came together quite nicely.
Here's a video of it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeIc8Mj0ykQ&feature=youtu.be
My 8 year old daughter helped with the video to demonstrate how easy it is to turn. She kept stopping and starting to try to stop it at a point where the heart was reformed. As it rotates, the heart is reformed at a different angle than the last time. I need to count it to confirm, but I believe that it has to go through 12 cycles at about 3 rotations a cycle to bring the heart back around to the original starting point.
Update - by request, I modified the heart pieces to thicken up the places where the walls were too thin. These new parts have "Thicker" at the beginning of their names.
| gyro_heart_gears_-_arrow_point_pin.stl | 37.1KB | |
| gyro_heart_gears_-_arrow_tail_pin.stl | 196.6KB | |
| gyro_heart_gears_-_bottom_brace.stl | 2.3MB | |
| gyro_heart_gears_-_crank_handle_fixed.stl | 114.1KB | |
| gyro_heart_gears_-_crank_nut.stl | 102.6KB | |
| gyro_heart_gears_-_drive_gear_w_handle-version_2.stl | 572.7KB | |
| gyro_heart_gears_-_drive_gear_w_handle.stl | 681.4KB | |
| gyro_heart_gears_-_heart_2-3_bottom.stl | 420.7KB | |
| gyro_heart_gears_-_heart_2-3_center.stl | 107.7KB | |
| gyro_heart_gears_-_heart_2-3_piece_1.stl | 539.8KB | |
| gyro_heart_gears_-_heart_2-3_piece_2.stl | 251.7KB | |
| gyro_heart_gears_-_heart_2-3_piece_3.stl | 374.2KB | |
| gyro_heart_gears_-_heart_2-3_piece_4.stl | 145.0KB | |
| gyro_heart_gears_-_heart_2-3_piece_5_arrow.stl | 183.2KB | |
| gyro_heart_gears_-_heart_2-3_piece_6_arrow.stl | 138.1KB | |
| gyro_heart_gears_-_heart_2-3_pin.stl | 37.6KB | |
| gyro_heart_gears_-_heart_2-3_top.stl | 223.0KB | |
| gyro_heart_gears_-_heart_for_upright_right.stl | 159.0KB | |
| gyro_heart_gears_-_large_gear.stl | 245.5KB | |
| gyro_heart_gears_-_large_ring.stl | 708.6KB | |
| gyro_heart_gears_-_pin_8x11__gears_and_right_upright.stl | 22.2KB | |
| gyro_heart_gears_-_pin_8x20_gear_to_small_ring.stl | 112.1KB | |
| gyro_heart_gears_-_pin_8x22_drive_gear_to_large_ring-skinny.stl | 30.0KB | |
| gyro_heart_gears_-_pin_8x22_drive_gear_to_large_ring.stl | 112.1KB | |
| gyro_heart_gears_-_small_gear.stl | 213.3KB | |
| gyro_heart_gears_-_small_heart_crank_pin.stl | 38.7KB | |
| gyro_heart_gears_-_small_ring.stl | 391.7KB | |
| gyro_heart_gears_-_upright_left.stl | 161.5KB | |
| gyro_heart_gears_-_upright_right.stl | 280.4KB | |
| thicker_gyro_heart_gears_5_arrow.stl | 170.9KB | |
| thicker_gyro_heart_gears_6_arrow.stl | 122.6KB | |
| thicker_gyro_heart_gears_piece_1.stl | 470.0KB | |
| thicker_gyro_heart_gears_piece_2.stl | 226.0KB | |
| thicker_gyro_heart_gears_piece_3.stl | 300.9KB | |
| thicker_gyro_heart_gears_piece_4.stl | 131.0KB |
