3d Printed Solar System Model (Orrery)

Music is under licence from Wintergaten.
Track - All Was Well
Artist - Wintergaten
Find their channel here:
/ wintergatan2000
Big thank you to Martin for allowing use of his tracks. I picked this one as it has the mechanical gears sound all the way through which perfectly matches the sound of the Orrery in real life.
Another big thank you to Martin for the inspiration to tackle bigger projects and get those dragons slayed along the way:)
Original design by Stan Patrick. You can find his Instructables with all his details here:
www.instructables.com/8-Plane...
Another big thank you goes out to Stan for the fantastic design. I did redesign a few of the parts as well as making some from fresh to suit the whole thing turning counter-clockwise.
Planet models used here:
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Moon, Mars, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune(all from same creator, scroll to find the others) - www.thingiverse.com/thing:335...
Jupiter - www.thingiverse.com/thing:274...
The Sun - www.thingiverse.com/thing:295...
This is the first video I have ever edited so apologies for the amateur nature of the filming and editing. I didn't want to cut Wintergaten's nice music short so I just stuck together ll the footage I had.

[@dianegoodwin3618]

My little boy (aged 4 who has autism and is obsessed with planets 😊) absolutely loves this video he watches it so many times a day, and I’ve had to buy him a wooden version quite similar, so now he plays your video side by side with his own musical solar system whilst watching yours 🥰

[@kaisersaucy1]

What a beautiful comment to read, that really warmed my heart ♥️ Thanks very much.

[@dianegoodwin3618]

@@kaisersaucy1 thank you for making a little boy very happy ❤️

[@camillabeneventefeitosa8513]

So lovely. Where do you bought this toy? My son loves planets too, but we live at Brazil.

[@dianegoodwin3618]

@@camillabeneventefeitosa8513 hi 😁 I found one on Amazon similar but I’m in the UK. Hope you find one 😊

[@ernestasbogdanov2088]

At some point with the chosen music it felt like this is not just a model, but a music box. Would be insane to have a music box one like that!

[@JohnPorsbjerg]

This is beautiful! Really puts it into scale to see how slow the outer planets are. Also Wintergaten music was a perfekt choice!

[@watertommyz]

So many years passed, while watching.

[@GOD-qk7xp]

Best mechanical project ever seen..❤

[@PhuongNguyen-bi7zt]

It looks amazing. I wish I could buy one for my kids!

[@zuhairchoudhry3439]

Me too

[@somanrahman9098]

This model is really alluring

[@veronsmile7139]

Amazing, would like to have something like that at my home

[@EyeLean5280]

Beautiful! Thank you!

[@thewalkerd]

This is so cool.. ...thanks for sharing

[@charlesyeshuahlopez8568]

Beautiful and wonderful 💖

[@user-ci4mu3rx8q]

Wow is so cool😊😊😊😊

[@arduino825]

look like amazing i will print it!

[@maazanis763]

It's so amazing, it took your intellect and calculation to do that. But when it comes to god, people say it's a coincidence and blind force without any intervention of intelligence. This video of yours gave me a sign that indeed god exists.

[@kaisersaucy1]

Thanks for watching - glad you enjoyed it. I wish you well.

[@USSRairsoft]

I like the modification you made to the earth ring by including printed text. Would you share your modified file for this? Love it!

[@kaisersaucy1]

Hi! Yeah, I will upload it to Thingyverse tomorrow and updated you here. Thanks

[@yukitsukiakari3898]

Потресающе😮

[@micmike]

nice work

[@alekumar]

Why isn't something like this in a Science Museum I have visited so far? It should be. Amazing.

[@terjesolsvik1783]

Could you make a video with lights off? Thanks, great model!

[@Tahuidtahu]

So cool

[@yoashuain1]

Nice!

[@cristip361]

Hello, great work man! How much filament did you use and printing time?

[@kaisersaucy1]

Hi! The black frame parts took a whole roll. The cogs are about 1kg in total - I already had quite a few rolls lying around from previous prints so was able to do them in appropriate colours. There's 100+ 3d printed parts at 1-4 hours print time each. Around 250 hours print time without failures or reprints (of which I had a lot) All in it took me 3 months of fully dedicated spare time - it has been the most fun and ambitious project I've ever attempted. I was very happy with the end result.

[@user-wq4xl7yf7s]

⁠ Lo 5:19 5:19

[@ella3266]

Thanks so much for the video. Is it possible to make an orrery with small gears like this but have the planets much larger?

[@EyeLean5280]

You can but the speeds would be the same with smaller gears.

[@widgetwiz3d756]

Fantastic job! I think looks better than mine. 👍👍

[@kaisersaucy1]

Thank you so much for the amazing design - I had a lot of fun doing this, and certainly learned a lot along the way. As for looking better? I think that's purely subjective - yours blew my socks off the moment I saw it. Knew I had to have my own right away. I am an electrician to trade so adding light and more wires was always playing to my strengths. Still haven't decided what to do next... You working on anything interesting?

[@widgetwiz3d756]

Thanks. Actually I am working on building the 6th 3d printer with many bells and whistles. The twist is it can also engrave/etch using a diamond tip drag bit like I use in one of my other videos. It will also cut using a drag knife. The nice thing is you do not have to remove the extruder at all. I should be finished with it this week and a video will follow. Congrats again on a great build and thanks for sharing! Take care.

[@coollollright8193]

Looks so good! i wish i had one

[@EarthBall563]

Tysm For Subscribing Looks Good

[@herbiethelovebugfan5380]

the music is so sad im gonna cry

[@loubarnes3001]

where can i buy one of these?

[@EsotericArctos]

This is pretty awesome. What filament did you use to print it? ABS, PLA, PETG? I can see this would have taken considerable time to print. With the motor running at the speed in the video, how noisy is it all? Do the gears tend to run fairly smoothly?

[@kaisersaucy1]

Hi, it's all PLA, mostly Eryone brand from Amazon here in the UK. Around 2kg total but I wanted all different colours for each planet so ended up buying like 7 rolls. The motor and gears are fairly quiet, very similar sound that's in the background of the music track that's playing - similar to Lego gears and motor. All the gears run really smoothly with the exception of the Moon one. I redesigned that whole section from the original instructions as his Moon was orbiting the wrong direction (everything in our solar system orbits retrograde, anti-clockwise as you look down from the North Pole.

[@EsotericArctos]

@@kaisersaucy1 Is there a link to your version of this available?

[@kaisersaucy1]

@@EsotericArctos my SSD died recently and I lost a lot of files, including all the orrery stuff. I did upload the calendar dial to Thingyverse, I've tried to link it here before and it didn't work so you'll find it if you search up "orrery dial"

[@EsotericArctos]

@@kaisersaucy1 Such a shame your files were lost. Thanks for the information

[@DrWhom]

@@kaisersaucy1 except days on Venus I think

[@robhopper5729]

I want to print this, but I was curious. Is it able to slow down so it always reflects the current positions of the objects in the solar system? Basically real-time and not flying around at high speed.

[@kaisersaucy1]

Hi! I don't think that's possible with the current gear ratios - you'd need a huge reduction set on the input to allow the motor to spin at a reasonable speed. Also, I think the movement of the planets would be imperceptible to the naked eye. Neptune takes 164 Earth years to complete a single orbit so that's more than two human lifetimes. I've yet to see an orrery that is designed to be real time, as pretty sure even the largest brass geared ones still only show the orbits relative to each other, but still spin fast enough to see with the naked eye. Guess the best way to spin it super slowly would be to add some form of hand crank gear. I'll be interested to hear how you get on with the print and possible additions to the design Good luck and thanks for watching

[@robhopper5729]

@@kaisersaucy1 how about a stepper motor that only "steps" every so often? How slow would you say that the motor needs to turn? I could control this with an arduino.

[@kaisersaucy1]

@@robhopper5729 Hi! Sorry for late reply, I've been considering the validity of your idea to use a stepper... I don't think the gears are fine toothed enough to give you continual rotation at the speed you require, but recon you could set it to turn once a day or so. The motor I use in the video goes from 30-60 rpm I think so that'll give you an idea on the speed reduction needed. If you're going for a micro controller and stepper then no reason you couldn't have two programs - one that spins fast and another that remembers its place to go back to real time positions again. I'll look forward to seeing whatever you can come up with.

[@elliotreeves7579]

Looks great how long did it take to build?

[@kaisersaucy1]

Hi! Took around 3 months total. Was in semi-lockdown, so this filled my days and nights for a long time. Thanks for commenting.

[@cesarcarvalho7280]

GREAT job, any chance to have the upgraded earth?

[@kaisersaucy1]

Hi! KZbin keep deleting any links I drop here. Think it was Thingyverse model no 3359808. Not 100% sure as I lost the SSD all this stuff was on

[@huyhoangphannguyen3574]

i have a question In the model does the Earth revolve around it? Thanks

[@kaisersaucy1]

Hi! The Earth does not rotate on this model. Look up "tellurion" as that's a more detailed style of just the Earth, Moon and Sun. Thanks

[@ossainromerosanchez1932]

Hola buenas noches, lo venderias??

[@PeterPan-is6ts]

Really appreciated the video!! I also wanted to make a 3D printed orrery for my school project, but it seems very overwhelming at the planning stages... Would you please give me some tips to help me get started? I just began learning about gears so maybe even a little can help a lot!! Thxxx =)

[@kaisersaucy1]

Hi, thanks very much! I will write you out some pitfalls to watch out for tonight after work.

[@kaisersaucy1]

Hello again! This is a massive undertaking and you should not underestimate any part of it. First thing to worry about is getting the parts ordered - I'm in the UK and mostly used Ebay. I had to use all metric sizes for the hardware, but managed to get imperial tubes. Using metric screws and rods meant that all the holes were too small - had to go at them all with a 5 and 6mm drill bit. Handy to have a selection a drill bits. The instructions on Instructibles will get you 90% of the way there but there's some things you'll just need to figure out youself - if you have a history of making things then you'll be fine. Printing all the parts is really easy but it's easy to get them mixed up - label things as you print. Building the gearbox part is about half the job, and was straight forward - fitting the rods and planets was very difficult. I underestimated this, but easily took half of the build time. I changed the size of the planets so didn't follow the cutting guide for the rods - instead I just bent them one at a time, after printing the planets. I had a lot of bother with cutting the tubes to the corerect size and ended up having to reprint some of the clamps a few mm shorter to fit the tube that was left poking out. If you search up "orrery dial" on Thingyverse you can fing the 3d printed bezel I designed to replace the paper printed part from the design. Use the strongest epoxy (or similar) glue to stick the tubes to the gears as the take a fair amount of torque and become inaccessible. Use the blob of solder on each tube as per the added instruction, it is really needed. Good luck and I'm happy to answer any questions you have along the way.

[@PeterPan-is6ts]

Massive thanks, now I finished the planning stages, now I am excited to get to work=p

[@charlielim88888888]

Can I buy this .

[@jaimeibarra1656]

Es precioso

[@dariotol6136]

Entonces todo es mecanizado! A la m... con lo qe siempre nos contaron! Es imposible en un espacio en "expansión" viajando a miles de kilómetros por el vacío qe algo pueda ser mecánicamente perfecto.

[@Himalayas2086]

How do you calculate the speed.

[@kaisersaucy1]

Hi! Each planet has its own gear ratio to suit its orbit. For every time Earth goes around once, Venus goes around 4.4 times. Outer planets take many years to complete one orbit - Neptune takes 164.5 years to do a single orbit around the Sun. I also fitted a potentiometer to control the speed of the motor, so I can adjust the actual speed. This makes everything spin faster, but it will always be relative to the Earth orbit. Thanks for watching

[@Himalayas2086]

@@kaisersaucy1 thank you so much May God bless you for this

[@Joshiganapati]

Ver nice solar model .... I need to buy thare is any buying option I m from India

[@odityaandalasputra3982]

do you have 3d model of each planet?

[@kaisersaucy1]

I have added links in the video description now as KZbin doesn't like them in the comments. Thanks for watching and good luck if you are building one for yourself.

[@odityaandalasputra3982]

​@@kaisersaucy1 what is the width and height of your project sir

[@kaisersaucy1]

I'm not able to measure it right now, but from memory it is approximately 400mm high to the top of the sun. It's around 600mm wide in the closed position.

[@odityaandalasputra3982]

@@kaisersaucy1 oh thank you sir🙏, your reply really helped me

[@StretchOutYourNeck]

Im dying to know what country are you from😢😢😢😢😢

[@kaisersaucy1]

I'm from the UK. Scotland to be specific. I think in the context of the video though, I'm from the 3rd planet from the Sun.

[@noni_x_probo]

Bro how do i make this?

[@kaisersaucy1]

All the instructions are in the video description. Thanks for watching.

[@TserendolgorByambadorj]

🎶 🎶 music solar system

[@HelloTouristcom]

ik

[@MateopaauL]

WERE PLUTO HAUMEA MAKEMAKE ERIS CERES🧐

[@parrytan8617]

😃😃

[@mysisterworld6202]

I want to buy this

[@user-fd5rg4ce9n]

ชีฟผาย แล้ว จะไป บทเรียน ไหม่ ไม่ทบ ทวน ก็ คงเจริญ ละ มนุษย์

[@user-jv2gb3bl9z]

Me too

[@crazystuffproduction]

Post this to hackaday!

[@qdange8204]

how to print the juipter？

[@kaisersaucy1]

Hi! To change colours, you pause the print and change the filament, then restart the print for each layer. You can babysit the print and just eyeball when to pause (this is what I did) or you can modify your g-code to pause at each height you want (more complex than eyeball method) Good luck

[@qdange8204]

@@kaisersaucy1 thanks

[@arduinoprojects3d]

Hey! Can you make a automated model of mechanical planetarium

[@kaisersaucy1]

Hi! I'm not understanding your question, do you want an animation from the CAD model?

[@arduinoprojects3d]

@@kaisersaucy1 hi! If you use thingiverse.com then you might know the mechanical planetarium made by zippitty baamba (KZbin name-towero mirth)

[@kaisersaucy1]

@@arduinoprojects3d Hi, I saw that model and was definitely considering adding it to the project queue. I gather you would like to see a motorized version? I will certainly give it a shot - takes a few months to put these things together, but, watch this space I guess:)

[@arisukmawan]

Prays

[@gustavostrompytoonssecondc6405]

I wanna buy orrery solar system

[@Gabo_Koopa]

a question :c

[@user-ih1zy5hn9l]

como se hace

[@StinkyCashFlatEarth]

You need to make the planets and moon rotate.

[@kaisersaucy1]

Hi! The Moon is tidally locked to the Earth so that doesn't spin in the real solar system. With this model the planets are just on metal rods so there's no way to make them rotate. It is extremely complex to do this - check out kzbin.info/www/bejne/r3y2aHZmmahgmLc to see just how complex the gearing gets when you want to add more axes.

[@StinkyCashFlatEarth]

@@kaisersaucy1 Official science claims the moon does spin. You might want to re-check your facts

[@kaisersaucy1]

@@StinkyCashFlatEarth It rotates the same as the Earth "tidally locked", but I wouldn't describe that as spinning. I could've worded my reply better!

[@voldy3565]

I just wish it ran off a tourbillon or something so it was fully mechanical.

[@kaisersaucy1]

That would be epic. What a great idea

[@pedrofelipecastaneda276]

It would be better with other planets’ satellites besides the earth’s moon

[@Sonshad]

Where's pluto?

[@DunaBallCountryBall]

PLUTO IS A DWARF PLANET

[@Sonshad]

@@DunaBallCountryBall BUT IT WAS STILL A PLANET INTIL 2006 OKAY

[@DunaBallCountryBall]

​@@SonshadHE IS DWARF PLANET 😤😤😤

[@DunaBallCountryBall]

The International Astronomical Union (IAU) downgraded the status of Pluto to that of a dwarf planet because it did not meet the three criteria the IAU uses to define a full-sized planet. Essentially Pluto meets all the criteria except one- it “has not cleared its neighboring region of other objects.”

[@Sonshad]

@@DunaBallCountryBall THEN WHY WAS PLUTO STILL A PLANET INTIL 2006 HM?

[@user-fd5rg4ce9n]

ร้องกัน แต่เพลง °ก° กรรม อะไรของกู ละ

[@Habib11225]

Venus lebih besar daripada mars !

[@user-fd5rg4ce9n]

นี้ แค่ ทบทวน ยังป่วน ทฤษฎี ได้ขนาด นี้ กู ว่า จะรอด บทไหม่ ไหมเนี่ย

[@StretchOutYourNeck]

Uhmm why is venus snaller than mars?

[@kaisersaucy1]

The planets are not to scale obviously! I had to make Venus slightly smaller as the Moon was hitting it on the way round

[@StretchOutYourNeck]

Wow. I didn’t think that you will relpy to it😅

[@StretchOutYourNeck]

*reply

[@StretchOutYourNeck]

Btw its amazing Saturns ring are glorious❤

[@StretchOutYourNeck]

But atleast venus is bigger than moon and mercury😅

[@hakan8997]

I want the Flat Earth model.

[@kaisersaucy1]

We don't do that here lol.

[@hakan8997]

@@kaisersaucy1 And you belive this? At 4 min you get all the mph we are traveling. kzbin.info/www/bejne/fGiafnWnpdCoopo And still the stars is at the same place every year, exept the North Star that is at the same place every day 365 days a year. Think of this. The sun is enormous. The Sun’s volume would need 1.3 million Earths to fill it. And still its big like the moon at 8 light minutes. 93 million miles. How big would it be at 16 lightminutes? Or at 7 light minutes witch is close to a light hour? Would you see it? Do you belive that?And nasa says that we can see stars at light YEARS! The closest one is Alpha Centauri B, are about 4.37 light-years from Earth. If earth is like this dot . You have to travel +129 miles to get to Alfa Centauri in a 200 billionth scale model. (Link below) Just one year is 8 760 Light Hours! A Football is big like a pingpongball on a footballfield. Epsilon Eridani is located in the constellation Eridanus, this star lies 10.52 light-years from Earth. It is the closest star to have planets orbiting around it. It also the third closest star that is visible to the NAKED eye. ??? And you belive that crap? If the earth was a ball, pilots would see lighthouses beyond the horizon. Light does not travel forever as we are told. This one is fun.. Codys Lab.. kzbin.info/www/bejne/mnS2eouCft-bsM0

[@hakan8997]

Did you know that all solar eclipses comes like random dates for 17 years and then starts all over and in the same dates as before? Next total solar eclipse seen from US is 8 april 2024. And seen in the same path again 17 years later, at the same date! So 17 years is random.

[@kaisersaucy1]

@@hakan8997 Sorry, I thought you were joking around at first, but I can see you're rather passionate about the subject. Whilst I do not agree with your views, I will respect them, but I won't get bogged down in a disagreement. I hope that you can respect my view on the matter too?

[@hakan8997]

@@kaisersaucy1 Sure sir! To bad we got to learn what to think in school, and not how to think. We got to know Einstein in school, but they did not talk aboute Nicola Tesla. At least not here in Sweden. How about in your school? Can you read a reference book at a library? Every one is gone before 1980 in Sweden. So its easy to change the history in a very short time.