LEVITRON Levitating Spinning Top | How to make a Levitron from scratch | Magnetic levitation
Hey everyone! In this video I show you all how to make your very own amazing Levitron hovering spinning top at home. This experiment is very hard to get right, and takes a lot of patience, but the end results are very pleasing, and you can even impress your friends! I advise you to buy your big base ring magnet, not online, but get it from a large broken speaker (Which is where I got mine from) or a microwave, etc...
I hope you enjoyed watching this video, and be sure to give this experiment a try :)
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🧵🔧📌 Materials needed for this project:
Small neodymium ring magnet - amzn.to/3UDQN0X
Large ferrite ring magnet - amzn.to/3Sedt65
Rounded thumbtack - amzn.to/3CbYjZH
Washers and light ring weights - Assorted Washers Kit - amzn.to/3SgVGvi
5mm Wooden dowel stick - amzn.to/3C8OKe3
Adjustable customized cardboard base
🎵 Music credits:
Ehrling - Dance With Me
Rob Gasser x Michael White x Miss Lina - Modular [NCS Release]
Roman Sky - Generation (Dream Crusher Media Release)
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The cuts on his arms indicate how much time and effort he puts towards his work respect to you brother
Your support is much appreciated, cheers! ✌🏻
@@MaxImagination anytime man
@@MaxImagination by the way can i please ask the name of the song at 0:12 seconds
Cuts??
My daughter is attempting this as a science project soon. Your video has been more than helpful. Thank you for the excellent work. Great job
Thanks a lot for your kind comment! Best of luck with your daughter's science project!
An update on your daughter's project would be most appreciated Sylvia! Please let us know how it turned out
@@danwright39 it was the most tedious project ever. It took weeks and weeks of long grueling hours trying to get it to work. But finally, 2 days before it was due, it worked. 😀But I could have kicked myself for letting her choose such a task. But she won 2nd prize in the middle school division.
@@Zaradikaresells nice job
so lucky she has this as a project, i’m a physicist and i used to do stuff like this all the time
I appreciate that You included Your failed attempts. Great video
Yes, including such things in the video prove that this phenomenon is hard to achieve, but possible. Thank you! :)
@@MaxImagination Well said! Keep it up
Dude this is a very cool and the easiest demonstration of this in the ENTIRE internet without a doubt !
Thanks for your comment!
Foi o melhor é bem explicado
he even got the Dave Hax “Pretty cool, huh” in there
:DD
This is so satisfying
isso foi o máximo, eu já tentei e nunca consegui fazer isso. parabéns
Obrigado por assistir! Espero que eventualmente você consiga fazer seu spinner levitar como o meu, ou ainda melhor.
I appreciate that You included Your failed attempts. Great video thanks for sharing !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks for watching! Cheers :)
@@MaxImagination Cheers :)
Thank you! Good luck in your further steps.
Thank you too!
I think I a weird way this is how ufos fly
Really amazing thank you for sharing.
Hay thanks you for sharing your video, been trying to make a spinning top. Very informative. 👍🏾
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for your kind comment :)
It's just so well explained and done.
Happy to hear! Thanks a lot :)
Little dude, I wish you much success in life!! Thanks for this amazing video and the excellent tutorial! This is so so so much better than the crap videos people are making nowadays just as clickbait. SO INFURIATING! Keep up the great work!!
Glad you liked it! I despise of those kinds of videos circulating the internet due to being time wasters, so I'm happy to stick to what's real when it comes to making my videos. Many thanks for your kind comment! Cheers!
Amazing buddy!!! Keep showing more experiments!!!
Thanks a lot! Will do!
in one of the temples in India we have this type of tech shivling (a cylindrical structure) used to rotate like this using magnets but the twist is it was built probably 2000 years back and massive size
Keep dreaming
@@morkyporky8890 🤣haha what u want west validation
@@morkyporky8890 it true man ... somnath India there is a flying shivling based on this tech some what 3000 years ago.
Ha, as soon as the video started I was like, "Trippy!"
Thanks Max :) I made a Quantum Spin game using tops and D&D dice. The Levitron will be the perfect spin timer for every move :))
Glad to hear you found my video helpful 🙂 Thanks for the comment!
I'm doing it for my school science fair!!!!!!!!! Thankyou very much
My pleasure... That's great to hear you've found my video helpful!
Wow creative, you deserve 100 000 million subscribers, and you win with the arm of the mind, I love you 🤗🤗
Thank you so much for your kind, sweet words!
You give so much knowledge thanks
So glad to hear that! Thanks! 😊
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Don't be mean
Perfect thanks for sharing your story with us
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks😊
This guy diserves millions
He did a great job
Thank you! 😊
Alien technology 😀👍
I am using it for school great vid! 👌
Thanks for your comment. Good luck!
This is how the earth is station with presice accuracy that that God said it's foundation will never move meaning of it axis drifted off its course. Its magnetic field because the earth is full of magnet. That how the earth spins around to get the seasons. It hangs on nothing. Which is magnetic. Excellent physics explained. Good job there young feller .
Thanks for your comment and insight 👍
Magnet are 😎 🆒️ 😎 😊😊
So amazing experiment
Thank you! :)
great content! would be good to know the dimensions of the magnet as well as the mass of the spinning part. Maybe this way a ratio can be estimated
The dimensions of the base ring mangnet are: 10x2cm, with a ~4cm hole diameter. The top ring magnet's dimensions: 24x5mm with a 4mm hole Hope you can get an idea on the dimension ratios. Thanks for watching! ✌😊
@@MaxImagination where can I find all the supplies you used because I'm doing this as a science project and nothing I have is working right
@@thesinuro Hi, sorry to hear that! I got the base ring magnet from a large speaker, smaller spinning top magnet from Amazon.com, and the rest of the parts are all from basic household materials, such as a pencil, washers etc...
@Max Imagination, do you have the exact link to the magnet found on Amazon?
Just get yourself a microwave magnet they are all exactly the same size you know what the rest is so get to work brother
Awesome video... not exactly what I was looking for but close enough
Did that in the 70's. Very retro, but Still has not lost it's coolness. MIT U is perfecting lev-memory as we speak. More into end of interface radical atom tech these days. Still, c o o l.
That's pretty cool! You seemed to be way ahead from back then. What type of levitation technology are you referring to (what is the product?), could you please send a link? Thx
Great video! I am trying this for a project. I have one question. Why should the diameter of the magnet in the spinning top be smaller than that of the base?
Hi, Rein. Thanks for your comment! The hole in the top magnet must be small to suit the diameter of the 4mm wooden rod. A better way to rephrase what you meant is the Inner diameter of the base magnet must be a bit larger than the Outer diameter of the top magnet as this is the physical aspect that keeps the spinning top hovering in place, creating the magnetic "donut effect". Same as a golf ball rolls into a hole larger than its diameter with ease rather than rolling over the hole. Cheers.
Cool project
really amazing.
Thanks a lot!
Nice work
Hi max I am a big fan of you I love your project
Thank you very much for sticking with my journey! Cheers
love this
nice video
This is the same technique that was used in Somnath Temple
Yes! Studying it more, it's an interesting history behind the ancient sequence of events that occurred with the temple.
This was aware by Indians long back They have used it in some anicent temples To levitate shivling I seen some video in utube This is also well done
Yes, quite the unique phenomenon. I wish I knew about it earlier! Thanks for your comment! :)
Hi there! Really wanted to try and make this. Can you please share where to get the spacers as shown in video? Looks like there were 2 different kinds you used for spacers. And the red bearing covers. Are those the same as the washers? The measurements of each material you used? Thank you so much!
Hi there. The washers you may need will most likely vary, it depends on how strong of a magnetic repulsion you're getting. Choose something rather light, such as aluminum or tin washers. Also, the biggest and bottom washer is a tambourine disc. Cheers!
Beautiful sharing👍
Thanks for your comment!
Great Idea friend 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Thank you! 😀✌
you are genius
Thanks for you comment! :)
Excellent job
Thank you! Cheers!
Yes
So can you make the actual magnet spin and the top not spin, because if you can maybe you can put other objects that use a magnet on top of it
Great, excellent, wonderfull!!!
Glad you like it! Thanks!
If you need a magnet go for a speaker cos it's easier than taking apart a microwave. If you do take a magnet from a MW be careful not to break the ceramic bits on the end of the magnetron (the bit that makes the actual microwaves) because they are toxic and horrible and can cause sickness. Watch a microwave teardown vid to learn how. If you go for a speaker magnet be careful not to break the magnet while taking it out. It's easily done. And remember, magnets are FUN.
Hi, yep, speakers are usually the preferred option when it comes to seeking for a large ferrite magnet. I have a microwave magnetron which contains a magnet, though now I may not consider opening one up just to get a magnet. Safety first!
@@MaxImagination Please revise your text and remove microwaves, because of magnetorns but also there are big condensates that may kill you at an instant ....
@@fairytalesaudiobooksforchi9995 Good point. That's something I missed to mention about microwaves... Not really safe machines! :/
Coolest science toy ever
Im sure thats how ufo works
Our world is a big magnet
______ | Motor | ^ | magnet |___magnet__ Will it lift up by itself
Make the top piece perfectly balanced made on a lathe. Then spin it in a vacuum chamber, suck all the air out and theoretically it should spin almost forever minus the incomplete vacuum wich is impossible to make a perfect vacuum. Maybe some other forces too will slow it down that I don't know of.
Good tip! The main piece with the rounded bottom could be made out of brass or another non-magnetic metal and is the piece where all the magnet and washers slide onto.
Nailed it
Thanks! :D
Awesome
Super, Keep going.
I like your style man good video good content
Thank you! 😀
Amazing 🤩🤩🤩
Thank you! :)
Is it two magnet's. Which direction are poles. Great video young man.
Whether the magnets face North-to-North or South-to-South, as long as they face each other with like poles, you will be headed in the right direction with this experiment. Thanks for your comment!
Wow amazing 😃🔥😯
Thanks a lot! 😀
Wow great job👍👍👍👍
Thank you! Cheers!
So cool :)
Thanks! :)
How are you doing this things dude 😮
Awesome.
Thank you! 😊✌
Excellent
Thanks!
This also means that we have energy associated with these magnets as it spins and levitates.
The levitation phenomenon leans more to being magnetic suspension rather than levitation, as I've learned from a viewer. The magnetic levitating spinning top is given kinetic energy from my hand to spinning on a fixed floating space (the opposing magnetic force from the base magnet. The energy of this levitron concept is no different than spinning a top on a solid, flat surface. This phenomenon does not produce free energy.
Da pra fazer uma mini balançar tambem
Nice bhai
Good video. I think the l spinning top stopped because of air resistance. If the top was in a vacuum it would spin forever.
Hi there, thanks for watching! As this is not directly related to free energy, the top would definitely spin longer in a vacuum, but not forever due to opposing eddy flux current from the magnetic field.
fantastic work and show. make more such movies
Thanks a lot! :D
it mean father solid floor straight tils are best! :)
Amazing ❤
Thanks 😄
Je pense qu'il faudrait associer cette"technologie" avec celle du moteur magnétique dit " a énergie libre" on éviterait les frottements et les problèmes de surchauffe et de vibrations ou encore mieux en utilisant la lévitation quantique mais dans ce cas il faut refroidir le supra conducteur et donc produire de l'hydrogène liquide ce qui va demander de l'énergie
very interesting! eventhough this vid been 2 years passed
Glad you enjoyed it! ;)
I am just wondering, would this work if I replace the round ferrite magnet with several round ones, placed in a circle?
This could work on a smaller scale, but you'd need to get your angles 100% right, a difficult task. I'd advise it's better to simply take one base ring magnet and use that.
why did you have the bolt leveling platform in the first half but then later not used at all, and then what is up with the latge ring mag just sitting on the tiles?
The large ring was used to level the base magnet when I wasn't using the leveling platform, this was done mostly for looks.
Hello,I am from India can you tell me about how to make Gyroscope 😄👍🥰
Good job!
Thanks! 😀
Super video nice
Thanks for watching!
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Nice nice
El mercurio, el metal de la liberación gravitacional Mediante la rotación centrífuga revierte el magnetismo terrestre 🛸👽
Most viewed video bro 👌👌
Super
Good
It was invented in India thousands of years even befor the khew the theory of magnetism. Refer to the levitating Shiva lingam
Question. Could you put this on a hat and make a ring for the top? Make a floating halo hat?
Not possible, unless your head is 100% stable and level at all times 😂
Super!
Thank you! Cheers!
Really nice
Thank you! Cheers!
Hey! So the wooden stick you have is 5mm diameter, so the neodymium magnet should be 5mm of diameter too, right?
Hey! The inner hole diameter should match (5mm), yes.
I think my magnet is too strong because it doesn't even want to spin but when I spin it on another surface it spins just fine
If you have a stronger magnet, maybe you just need to spin it from up higher above the base magnet.
Bravo 🙂
Thank you! ✌️
Wow ... Great ... keep it up
Thank you! Cheers!
This is how ufo works
Im planning the delorean time machine hotwheels.. i dont know if it works
Well, best of luck!
Bro can we use ring magnet in the place of neodymium magnet
No. It won''t be strong enough to sustain the spinning top in the air. You could try, but it will make it much more difficult to work...
@@MaxImagination bro i have tried with two ring magnets on the top it is not working may because of incorrect materials I have used
Do you have any tips on finding the starting height above the ring magnet? I tried spinning the tops, but it wont even spin, it just tumbled (like fall down immediately being pulled by the magnet)
Hi, the starting height at which you should spin your top from on your board or launching platform really depends on the dimensions of your base and top magnets. In terms of telling by the push of pull of the magnetic repulsion, you can find out your starting height by moving your top up and down just above the base magnet, you should not feel an invisible bump, but instead quite a bit of attraction 1.5-3cm above the base magnet. from that slight pulling-in point, is where your top should be spun from, basically, your launching board has to be a little lower than that. Hope that helps. Cheers, Max
@@MaxImagination many thanks! Will try that. There's just so many variables to get it right :)
No problem. Oh yes, there sure is a many important factors to keep in mind when doing such experiment. It's just trial and error! :)
Красава че :) теперь надо думать, как зафиксировать по бокам, хотя бы слегка
Спасибо! Это тоже можно добавить в будущую версию левитрона. 🙂
@@MaxImagination давай, мы верим в тебя! Основной упор сделай на времени бесперебойной работы (чем дольше, тем лучше) и сколько оборотов делает за час, день или может быть неделю. Удачи :)!