Create 3D-printable mechanical fidget toys of different shapes made of interconnected gears.
This is a minimalist tool for building mechanical fidget toys through functional geometry operations.
A batch of colorful cubes.
I got fascinated by this Gear Ball I saw at my friend's place in San Francisco. He was kind enough to give it to me and I promised to make a cube version of it.
After a bit of research I came across this beautiful Gear Heart that had a better version of pins.
I thought it would be a fun exercise to make my own version of it and share it with the family. You can turn it into any shape and share the joy with family and friends.
- Install uv (if you haven't already):
curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh- Create a virtual environment and install all dependencies (including dev):
uv venv --python 3.12
source .venv/bin/activate # On Windows use: .venv\Scripts\activate
uv sync --all-extras --dev
uv pip install jupyteruv run jupyter notebookCheck out the example notebook to learn how to:
- Create a core structure with customizable diameter
- Generate gears with custom profiles and configurations
- Apply different shapes (cube, sphere) to your fidget toy
- Add connecting pins for assembly
- Export the parts for 3D printing
If you have any questions or feedback, send me an email at artyom.astafurov@gmail.com.