Kinetic Art Wind Sculpture by kendel3d

Last crawled date: 3 years ago

I was inspired to try and make this after watching a YouTube video of Clayton Boyer's mesmerizing Zinnia Kinetic Sculpture. Checkout the video, it's awesome. His is spring powered where mine is wind powered. My version.
The center turbine mandala is about 524mm in diameter and called mini_3. This was not intended as a joke, I was planning on doing a bigger one that I would have to print in sections on my 2' x 2' x 2' printer and bolt them together. This "mini" version is small enough to print in one piece.
I'll do more of these type of kinetic art wind turbines. Follow me if you want to be notified when they are uploaded.
This is a large print. The main center piece is about 524 mm in diameter. You'll need a large printer or break up the STL file to print it in pieces. You'll need two of these. Make them out of PETG since it will be in the sun and needs to take some heat. I've printed it with 0% infill and low infill. If your bridging settings are good, you can do 0%, but do 3 external walls. You'll need 24 of the blades. These I did in PLA and they did fine in the sun, at least in California. I glued them in place with Acrylic Cement from Amazon. Worked perfect for gluing PLA to PETG. Before you glue the blades in place, make sure you have them turned the right way so that the two turbines turn in opposite directions in the wind.
Hardware needed:
3 x 608ZZ bearings. One for each center mandala and one in the top piece.
1 x 8mm smooth rod 40mm long.

2 x M8 bolt 35-40mm long.
Tap your Top piece before inserting the M8 bolts. Make sure everything fits with the turbine mandala in place. Then take it apart and put a little of the acrylic cement on the threads of the M8 bolts and put it back together.