Designern Ken Condal, som går vid Zeamon, gjorde denna intrikata och vackra “orrery”, en mekanisk modell av solsystemet.

Ever since the fourth grade when we made solar systems with coat hangers and styrofoam balls, I’ve wanted to build a more realistic Orrery but was never able to find a design or set of plans that inspired me. Having never worked with gears, I believed that designing my own was far beyond my skill level, but that’s never stopped me before. After three months of study and design followed by seven months of machining, I came up with the following Orrery.

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