What’s better than Cube Gears?
Answer: Motorized cube gears
Dougc314 has taken the gears-motif to a new level. This would make an awesome office toy. Just a little something to sit on the edge of your desk and slowly cycle through the rotations, forming and deforming a cube as it goes. He was also kind enough to provide some additional instructions for making your own variations.
Or, imagine how cool it would be to modify whosawhatsis’ Eccentric Sphere Gears to be motorized, paint it to look like Earth, and then fire it up?
A motorized version of Emmetts' Cube Gears.
I built it (Emmett's that is) and was showing it around work. One of my favorite collaborators (Brian C.) and I were discussing motorizing it. I had visions of a tiny motor in the center, and was fussing over battery size, etc. when Brian suggested blowing a hole through one of the big corners and connecting a drive shaft to the center to an external motor. A quick look on Ebay found a motor, and when it came in the mail I started in on the design. I designed the parts in Alibre, sorry, OpenSCAD is a very impressive tool, but I am too CAD oriented). I did import the stl of the gear into Alibre. The zip file has the Alibre files and STEP AP203 exports as well.
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Don
That made me laugh. I loved it!