Orrery of the Sun and eight planets
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Tested
- Stands at every step
- every step reachable
- every part made in its colour
- nothing loose
Worked out by the Brickworks app 0.6.0 as it was published, building it by its own 87 steps, and 12 sub-assemblies built on the side in 64 steps of their own.
- 502 parts
- 87 steps, laid out by its builder
- 12 sub-assemblies built on the side, in 64 steps of their own
- Technic or a mechanism
- With the assistant
- Moves: gears
- 1 view
- In the gallery since
- Version 2
About it
A working orrery: one crank turns all eight planets round the Sun, each through a gear train of its own, and every planet's year comes within 0.35% of NASA's. A Claude session built it in Brickworks, finding each train with the app's gear ratio search.
Licence
CC BY 4.0. Anyone may share it, change it and build on it, for any purpose, as long as they credit Brickworks (@brickworks) and link to this page. The licence.
Parts
502 parts in 58 lots
Comments
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Versions
Version 2: 12 parts added and 4 removed; its steps could not be compared.
Built in steps a person can follow: the spine goes in between the planets, and the pillar tops let the axles through.
Part by part
- Added 8 × 4032b in Dark Bluish Grey
- Added 4 × 15535 in Dark Bluish Grey
- Removed 4 × 3941 in Dark Bluish Grey
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