Electronic Levitron...How the heck does this thing work?

[Pirate88179]

Lakes:

Thank you so much for posting the translation page.  So, hall sensors appear to be the ticket here as well then.

TK:

At first, i thought it was a hard drive package but then, as you say, it could also be some other type of drive unit.  The heat sink confused me as well but, I suppose that could easily have been added to the drive enclosure.  The fact that he is using a heat sink is probably good news as I doubt the Levitrons are using one...or at least not a large enough one as there seems to be some problems with longevity with those.

Bill

[Nink]

The Forum that discuses this is an interesting read but googles translation engine is painful at best.

https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?act=url&depth=1&hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://radiokot.ru/forum/viewtopic.php%3Ff%3D3%26t%3D4810%26hilit%3D%25D0%25BB%25D0%25B5%25D0%25B2%25D0%25B8%25D1%2582%25D1%2580%25D0%25BE%25D0%25BD&usg=ALkJrhibx4UoU0UwyDScPJvF8d6PBk0TtQ

there are some great videos of this in the thread.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQbGKWUjlBg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZKuk6ay6Pc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3ANCG_Tbjc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMCir6MNYzk

[Pirate88179]

Nink:

Those videos are great!!!!!  I think it was the 3rd video where it showed like 5 small wound electro mags on the bottom.  It is great to see that all of these variations appear to work very well.  I will look at their youtube accounts to see if there are any vids with schematics or how to build.

Man, I feel like we are really late to the party here.  I thought this would be a cutting edge project, but now we see this is not the case, ha ha.

Great find and thank you for posting.

Bill

[Pirate88179]

Here is another video from the first video guy posted above:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyzgB7Ah3IM&list=UUhRJmfON7S6q-TaiUnarWXg

This thing is beautiful!!  Evidently, this video was done prior to the other one we have seen.

That might be the coolest device I have seen yet.  I want one of these floating in my living room.

Bill

PS  Holy crap!  Here is another video from yet another guy:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eexeEg2N7kw

[Pirate88179]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPpgz0bpDrY&list=UUW1ksApUmz61fqfVRgdYfaw

Check this guys channel on Youtube.  He has like 10 videos on his devices showing his experiments and progession.

Bill