How to make a levitron at home

With some everyday household items and some magnets, you can make this awesome Levitating Top! This mimics the popular Levitron toy from the 90's. As the intro stated, this is replicating the popular Levitron toy that was popular back in the 90's, but is not longer for sale. That toy used two special ceramic ring magnets, but we are going to replicate it using some standard sized neodymium magnets!

Hello, today I'll show you how I made levitron. So the idea of device is very simple, the electromagnet lift into the air a piece of magnetic material, and in order to create the floating effect, it is connected with a high frequency, lifting and dropping the subject. Let's move on to the assembly, first we need to make a frame for the electromagnet around these parameters, 6mm diameter, winding length of about 23mm and a diameter of plugs with a margin somewhere 25mm, as you see I built it from a notebook sheet, cardboard and super glue, naturally previously spilled half a bottle on hand and table. So, now we fix the beginning of the wires in the frame, relaxing and starting to wind about turns, no matter in what direction, and can wind in bulk, I have decided that it is for wimps and made 12 layers turn to turn killing one and a half hours. Fix the end of the wire, put off the coil and pass to the soldering, all under the circuit without any nuances.

How to make a levitron at home

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This is a project that will amaze and inspire! What good is all of that science know-how if we can't do something cool with it, right? With this project we are going to use a couple of components that are easy to make or find to build a jaw dropping, mind bending Electromagnetic Levitator, or EMLEV as I call it. With the help of some simple circuitry, a magnet, a Hall Effect sensor and a few other components you will be able to levitate objects in mid air! For this project we will need a controller circuit, a power source, an EM coil and a magnet along with the hardware and tools to put it all together.

How to make a levitron at home

This instructable explains how you can build your own top hovering in the air like a UFO. Did you ever try to levitate a magnet with the help of bunch of other magnets? It seems very easy: since magnets can repel each other you probably can put a bunch of magnets in circle so they equally push the other magnet towards the center of the system. Or maybe even build a sphere made of magnets that would suspend another magnet in the center. In fact back in British mathematician Samuel Earnshaw proved that it is in fact impossible to suspend a regular magnet in space with the sole help of other regular magnets statically placed around it. So it is impossible to suspend a magnet in space using just bunch of other magnets. But take a look at the video. There is a large ring ceramic magnet and another magnet which is also a top.

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There is sweet spot in the repelling magnets, where the repelling force is just right and the top will levitate there. So the idea of device is very simple, the electromagnet lift into the air a piece of magnetic material, and in order to create the floating effect, it is connected with a high frequency, lifting and dropping the subject. We successfully made a 3D printed version of this and have uploaded our files to ThingiVerse. Then we used electrical tape to make the diameter larger to accommodate the ring magnet. We can only set it up, as I said We put sensor inside, fix it, suspended coil and apply power, by bringing the magnet feels that it is attracted or repelled, depending on the pole and at a distance trying to fly, but does not. One, you'll need to balance the base. If the top doesn't lift off of the spinning plate, it's probably too heavy. We also love to conduct experiments with our magnets and build unique projects with them! Repeat this until all the magnets are in! Then, cut out the square layout.

Levitron: Playing with Magnetic Levitation. Important electromagnetic Principles Behind the Levitron.

We also love to conduct experiments with our magnets and build unique projects with them! And as the final touch - a blue paper tape seemed not enough sexy, take it off it, I was right - a copper wire coil turn to turn looks much better. Now it's time to drill out the holes! If you keep seeing the top falling to one side, you'll need to jack up that side. Slide one magnet in a hole at a time. Actually, now everything is more or less running and we need only align and secure the sensor. Take your stack of disc magnets, we used our DN52 magnets. Take it out, bends here in such a way that with inscriptions flat side was eventually parallel to the ground and put back - this time it's much better, but still not floating, what the problem is now I realized surprisingly quickly, tablet form - not the most successful thing to levitate and just enough to shift the center of gravity to the bottom, I made it of a piece of thick paper scribbled with the logo of the project, by the way do not forget to look which side of the magnet is attracted to the coil. What else are nuances Devise circuit is surprisingly easy, and I think there is will be no problem to build it, actually here it is, lets go through the components: - LED any color, it is optional - transistor Irfz44n, almost any similar mosfet is suitable - diode HER, with the same success would work some sort of 1n - Resistors 1k and Om, the latter is not necessary - Hall sensor is A, it can also be replaced by a similar - Copper winding wire diameter of 0.