DIY LED Levitron | How to make a magnetic levitating spinning top from scratch | Science explained
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 พ.ค. 2024
- Hey, everyone! In this video, you get to see how I made the LED Levitron levitating spinning top, you get to hear my scientific explanation behind how it levitates and what keeps it levitating in place, and of course, you get to see the cool thing hovering!
I spent a few months working on this project on and off, getting the levitating spinning top itself to be perfectly balanced and reducing the weight was the hardest part of perfecting the LED levitron, so in the end, it turned out pretty stable and I finally succeeded with my creation, I'm really glad to be able to share this project with you guys!
If you are thinking of making an LED Levitron like mine, then please go watch my first Levitron video before making this version, good luck if you also make it!
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Music credits:
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Video Chapters:
00:00 Beginning
00:35 Introduction
01:10 Tutorial
01:53 Sponsor of this video
02:22 Tutorial + Trial & error
05:00 Attempting to Levitate it
06:26 Scientific Explanation
07:37 More of LED Levitron
09:28 Outro
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Hey everyone! The comment section has finally been re-enabled over the whole channel after 2 years by TH-cam themselves who shut it down in the first place. Glad to be in touch with my viewers again! :)
Good music selection for both videos :) It's real icing on the cake of an already great pair of tutorials.
Glad you like them! Thanks for your positive feedback!
Get the patent 👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼 you have a great product right there
This young man is brilliant.
The next version should include a micro-motor inside the top which would cause the top to spin in the opposite direction. The base would be an electromagnet with a hall sensor circuit to equalize the magnetic forces.
Hmm, interesting concept idea... Thanks for your comment and insight!
@@MaxImagination You have an impressive amount of talent to be able to build a balanced top without the help of fancy equipment.
Your project made me wonder if a maglev train could benefit from gyroscopes.
I had to subscribe because I 'have' to see more of your ideas!
Thanks a lot! I appreciate your kind remarks...
Haven't dived down that realm of magnetic projects, but could try!
I've been making a levitron for like 3 years and still cannot get it right you make it look so easy but that's okay cuz I've also made a little Cube float without no spinning and that was pretty cool
Really impressed at your tenacity and fabrication skills. You’re a clever guy. 👍👍🇬🇧
Thank you! Cheers!
Hey there Max! Thanks for the cool video. I do wish that we had the net when I grew up, I feel like i missed out on experimentation lol. Keep it up!
Thank you, Sam! Now is your time to catch up on the information boom 😀
How about adding another magnet in the center of the ring magnet and placing its south facing up,thus the magnetic above should possibly be like a stronger vortex,which is easier for stabilization of the levitator
Never tried it. Feel free to report back if you do!
Wow... Surprising
Hi! Love your video! Just want to ask: does the spinner's top magnet size matter? Can I use smaller size magnet (like 20mm diameter)? Or is it the larger the better? Thanks!
Hi, thanks for your comment! The top size does matter as it depends on being suspended above that donut shaped magnet below, so its diameter should not exceed the inner hole diameter of the base magnet. 20mm should work, with enough fine tuning.
Cheers,
Max
SO AWESOME!!!!!
Thanks!! :D
Couldn’t you get the top spinning in a flat bowl(um…. Eye contact shape) so the top will spin at the bottom of it and then lower the bowl while it’s spinning until the ring magnet starts repelling it? Instead of trying ti get it spinning and raising it above the magnet? Also, what if you fixed the ring magnet to a drill or something and made it spin and then lowered the top while it’s still over the spinning ring maybet. Would the top still levitate despite it not spinning? 🤔🧐
Nice
There are much thinner lithium cells which should lighten it dramatically... Nice idea!
I've tried it with those and it works slightly better! Thanks 😀
Fantastic !!!!
Thank you!
I am from India and I love your video very much 🙂and keep it up
Thanks a lot! Your support is much appreciated! :)
Can you glow it by spinning via coil over magnet field , likes an generator ?
May be possible, but that would certainly raise the complexity of the project.
@@MaxImagination try 0.02w smd LEDs maybee
i wish you can provide shoppee links too
Will ferrite pullox magnets work?
As long as the outer diameter is no smaller than 6cm, a pullox magnet as the base will work, yes.
From where we can get that type of LED capsule
Hi. I got the LED capsule from one of these floating pond lights: www.amazon.com/Beckett-Corporation-Solar-Lily-Lights/dp/B00G93ZW5U/ref=sr_1_2?crid=1AT5POCU58LZH&keywords=led+floating+lights+for+pond&qid=1658944539&sprefix=led+floating+lights+for+pond%2Caps%2C172&sr=8-2
How about using a three-point leveling base rather than four-point? I think that would be easier to setup and adjust -- especially if you also center a round bubble level on the plate of the base magnet for extra precision. And maybe build a variable speed motor gizmo with a release-clutch, to get the top spinning at the specifically required speed, which would also eliminate the uncontrolled flinging of a finger-thumb spin?
Good ideas... Making sort of a launcher type motorized mechanism might do the trick and even get the top so spin for longer!
Heyy, amazing vedio,
I'm actually willing to make a levitating device , so I had a question
Can you please explain the equal force part cuz I don't get what I should do
, thx in advance ..
Hello, Andy. Thanks for watching!
In terms of the physics behind the device, you don't have to take so much of it into consideration. The main thing would be to have a near perfectly balanced - correctly-weighted spinning top with the magnet and a perfectly level base magnet with a big enough inner hole diameter.
Keep tweaking and adjusting the spinning top's weight as you go, according to the magnitude of how much or little the base magnet suspends it in the air. Cheers.
@@MaxImagination noted thx
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Oke good..
Way cool dude
Thanks for watching! 😀
@@MaxImagination your welcome and thank you I'm real proud of you,, your a very intelligent young man ,, you get 5 stars and 2 thumbs up on my chalkboard,, thank you.
@@junojorjorian4283 I am heart-warmed to hear that... thanks a ton, Juno!
Very nice, but would with a free-energy glowing LED or bulb, it would be even better.. 😅👍
Thanks for watching. Yes, that would be cool, possibly even with wireless energy transmission via induction by coils.
😍😍👍
If you put this levitron inside a balloon would the balloon levitate?
No. The balloon wouldn't levitate as it has nothing to do with the levitron - if it's not in contact. If the balloon touched the spinning top, it would fall.
How much time it can leviate or fly
Mine levitates up to 30-60 seconds (also mentioned in video)
@@MaxImagination can you make forever levitating device
It's possible, but would most likely require electricity to keep levitating
Peace brother. May God, The Force be with you.
Thanks for your kind comment!
I'm new here so I just have to ask the question why bother making your own little levitron other than to say you made your own?, i would rather buy one of those little tops online and just use a speaker magnet like your doing unless the ones online are two heavy to stay in perfect balance??
If you can find a top online that works fine, great. Otherwise, it's more practical to make your own top yourself as you can balance and fine-tune it to the perfect weight.
i think that maybe with 4 electro-magnets controlled by a microprocessor to stabilize it, like a drone
I think at that point it would already be considered an Electromagnetically-stabilized magnetic puck, differing from the "Levitron".
Hi , my magnetic top is not levitating, cant find its sweet spot , please help
Hi. Did you make sure your base magnet is lying on the correct side? Holding the spinning top in hand, you must feel a gradual pull towards the hole of the magnet.
@@MaxImagination yes the hole is attracting and the flat surface of ring magnet is repelling , I added 4 magnets , no luck yet
@@NikitaShahartist Hi. For me to help you further, please explain to me what's going on when you attempt to get the top levitating. Does it bounce off and repel suddenly? Does it just fall straight to the base after it takes off?
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