January 23, 2017
Description
Update1: I made new crank, its reinforced and its easier to rotate slowly (I made it 3 gearboxes as its relatively hard to rotate whole thing) next step would be to improve planet gears holder as its now weakest part for 3 gearboxes variant.
Update2: I added reinforced version of planets holder thingies, they are pretty solid now and I consider this project finished :) https://youtu.be/ytXheS1m-V4
PS i find 2 gearboxes and old crank as best one, 3 gearboxes are cool but too much friction ruins the fun and also more possibilities for whole system to jam... but the choice is yours :)
How to assemble (sorry for quiet audio) https://youtu.be/9Z3ExSQPsK8
Hello , I just want to publish my few months worth project :) I don`t know why but I wanted to make mechanical toy, something that can do something while few days ago it was just static filament roll.
Straight away I want to thanks those guys
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1415432
and
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:56542
as I used their parts as I felt I will have troubles creating my own fan and my own gears.Thank you for publishing your projects even tho I heavily modified them.
There is no suggestions to how you should print it, just one thing - there is no need in supports in any of parts and there is no crazy business with shapes. Your printer should be pretty accurate for parts like fan case and fan holder and there will be veeery small gap when you insert one into another so it will rotate freely but it wont jump left and right and all over the place. So i hope your printer can do it.
Assembling should be easy
Anyway sorry if i forgot something , there were tons and tons of iterations and thinking involved there is like 10 versions of everything but i think its pretty reliable and easy to make now, hope you like it. Enjoy!
Ah almost forgot , main feature of this one is you can place one gearbox after another, multiplying speed more and more! :)
License:
Creative Commons - Attribution