Levitillusion Spinning Top

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This is a Spinning Top that gives the illusion of an exclamation point floating in air with a ring circling it. I saw a top like this in a video but could not locate anything to print so I designed my own in Tinkercad. There are two versions here in two sizes each. The original version has a smooth stem to spin with in a 45 and 70 mm size ring and the second has a 'grippy' stem to give you a better hold when launching. They can bounce nicely when launched and have a satisfying spin time of over one minute. These require printing with supports. The tricky part can be getting the point started without it coming loose. Update: It does help to use a 5mm Brim for Bed Adhesion so that the point does not get loose. See it spin here: https://youtu.be/-4_OzpVcETU