Building a Maglev train for my Christmas Tree 

STL files are available at the link in the description.

NICE - Built one for my niece for her science project 15 years go. She had me add LED lights to the front. Off course she won. She did help me build it and was able to explain in detail how it worked. She was only in the 3rd grade at the time.

Your Projects are amazing

Man all your 3d printed projects are designed so well. everything is thought of and fits together super well. just the cable routing grooves are so good. would have never thought of sth like that

Man that was amazing. I dg how you left in the mistakes and the proto process. Well done man

Fantastic work !!

So magnetic. Amazing.

As always brilliant

Beautiful

Nice Christmas project!

Nice project thanks for sharing

This is sooo cool!

Brilliant 😊

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Funny project. Thanks.

To reduce costs, just a thought, what would happen if you used electromagnetic coils instead of permanent magnets on the track? Your method seems like the speed of the train would vary during each full rotation around the track with the train accelerating after each pulse. If you used electromagnetic coils you could vary the speed and even the direction by using timing of the coils. I know this is a lot more involved and could be done with 555 timers to alter the pulse width and frequency or by using a micro controller. It definitely increases the complexity of the wiring however. You would not need the ir feedback system for this approach too. With this design, you could also power an LED on the train for a headlight maybe using a coil, capacitor, and diode for that part on the train. Additionally you may want to further improve this by using refrigerator magnetic tape attached to the side of the track and train with like poles repelling the sides so they dont touch. I think setting the tape on the track slightly lower than the magnetic tape on the sides of the train will also help to levitate the train but not strong enough to eject the train from the track. I think you did an excellent job btw on this very simple design which for all intents and purposes suffices for most applications. Thank you.

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Well done.

Un trabajo extraordinario excelente explicación! Gracias Felices fiestas.

Impressive!

It is amazing

Love this 😁

Awesome.

nice

Your projects are amazing. Can you share more about technic details.

It would be interesting to put magnets on the side too to cancel attrition running in it in a vacuum and seeing how many circles it does

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(1) GREAT PROJECT! (2) There is a bit of irony there: You made a little sign that said _"NORTH POLE."_ Each permanent magnet has one...😉 (3) You obviously DO NOT have a CAT...🤭

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Wow

could maybe implement some kind of error correction based on the average timing of the other sensors, that way if it detects nothing it could send out a pulse based on the average time of the last laps?

Clear side guides Santa and sleigh instead of train Sink coils into track Have motion detectors feed into Christmas tree lights

all the thing are greatly explain but i just want to know the size of the magnet

What if you glue a couple of magnets on each side of the train skirt, facing the same pole inwards, and glue magnets to both inner and outer walls of the ring, facing the same pole away from the ring wall. This should keep the train from touching the ring and make it comletely silent.

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I dont know if anyone will read this since it has been more then a year since this video has been uploaded, but would it work if I put the coil in the train instead of on the tracks?

Do the magnets NEED to be the disc type or can they be bar magnets?

Can you please explain a bit more about how you fabricated the electromagnets?

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Can you tell me where you buy the structure of the track

What will be the cost of the project.

you could have used a dc coil, like in railgun, in the train itself, running from a battery

do you have links to the other materials you used. ?

Hi dude, Great project! Whats' the 3 dimensional design software you are using?

What 3d software is that you using

Is it nessecary to use the optical sensor cant we use batteries????

Do you have the stl files? I kinda want to follow along.

hi! how many turns does the coil need? im recreating this project and i need to know

What are the sizes of these magnets will be making this for science fair 😅

What power source did u use?

Thanks for sharing your excellent project. Can you tell what grade of magnet you use? N35 or higher?

how big is the magnets

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which electromagnet did you use?

Why did u use the coiled wires?how did it moved the train ahead??

power consumption?

Sir, can you make this project and give it to me?

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Granted it's levitating by magnets, but only bechause you're mechanically supporting it. I thought this was going to be some fun super conductor stuff.

You talk about magnets being unstable, but if i might say, so is your microphone.