Close

Levitron Revolution with EZ Float Technology

A project log for prism laser scanner

bringing additive manufacturing to the next level

hexastormHexastorm 03/23/2022 at 21:310 Comments

@gravis pointed me to a project which reversed engineered levitron revolution

In the vertical position, the magnet holds like a pound of weight without consuming
any additional power.  Video below shows the horizontal position. The device can be tilted 90 degrees!

There are people who reached out to me for the current laser head.  The current laser head is hard to reproduce while still making a profit. Currently, I will focus on simply producing a cost effective device which is easy to produce.

I admit that a magnetic levitated prism in combination with a laser scanner would be very cool.
I think it should be totally possible to do this with pcb coils.

Maybe one day...

Gravis also had a link for customizable magnets;

http://www.polymagnet.com/polymagnets/


A related topic, is levitation of pyrolytic sheets, article has nice video of rotating disk with laser
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja310365k


Discussions