@Marian This is such a beautiful project! Any updates? Do you have pictures with the planets mounted? Thanks!
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Great to hear you’re interested! The project has been on pause for some time, but I haven’t given up.
There are some more photos in this thread: Marian: "Made the remaining rings and started with the rid…" - Gamedev Mastodon
It’s not in a place where it’s working well at the moment. Since I moved away from Guildford, I don’t have access to SHM anymore, but I recently bought a CNC machine, so I should be able to cut acrylic, aluminium and brass (just need to learn CAM…). I think I will work on the plans some more and build a new orrery that uses machined parts instead of laser cut parts. I got distracted with 3D printed clocks, I’m making one at the moment, but that project is almost finished.
This is super cool.
Did you ever finish?
Thanks Alex! This project is still nowhere near complete but I’ve made some progress learning to use the CNC machine. I’ve started a new orrery which will be simpler, it will have just the sun, earth and moon and will be made out of acrylic on the CNC. This is my current progress:
The earth will attach on the left, at the end of angled piece (it has the 23.5° inclination angle). The moon will go on the big gear on the left and the sun attaches on the right. The orrery will also need a stand for this whole thing to rest on.
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Thanks @Marian.
Thats some incredably impressive work.
I am just setting out on learning gear trains (for a very different application, or boardgames) trying to do several rings spinning at different rates, for players to try and then calculate and map a spaceship route, to sling shot around planets. So very much simplified gears, on a strictly horizonal basis.
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