Meggnets #TinkercadEaster

myminifactory

Hi! Thanks for taking a look at my submission to #TinkercadEaster, I hope you like it. I thought that it would be fun to put something with a lot more potential for creativity and imagination inside the egg - an easy-to-print, easy-to-assemble set of 10mm magnetic building blocks that will stick to any metal surface! A friction fit egg is included as well - just scale it to fit the number of blocks you want to fit inside, or even use one of the other funky egg designs available on MyMiniFactory. The set consists of a cylinder, triangular wedge, and cube, all designed to fit together perfectly. The magnets on the wedges stand slightly proud to allow articulation at joints, keeping fingers busy building any number of structures you can imagine. The blocks use 3mm neodymium cube magnets that will stick to the fridge door or even hang upside down from any magnetic metal base (max 6 per block, 2 per cylinder and 2 per wedge). The magnets are readily available from Amazon or Ebay and very cheap, though not suitable for very small children or adults who might eat their toys. Assembly should just require firmly pressing the magnets into the printed blocks, though as actual sizes will vary from printer to printer, a dab of glue may be required to hold them in place. For the wedge and cylinder blocks, the magnets tend to matching orientations making sorting the polarities very simple. Assembly of the cube magnet is similarly easy for a pair of magnets, but can get tricky if you want to magnetize all 6 faces. Fortunately, there are some really good instructional videos out there that can teach you a bit about magnets in the process! Have fun and happy building. These objects were made using Tinkercad. Wedge Magnet: https://www.tinkercad.com/things/6o1Co36vrf3 Cylinder Magnet: https://www.tinkercad.com/things/emSaBPO1aYf Cube Magnet: https://www.tinkercad.com/things/bRVPtREov8y Egg Top: https://www.tinkercad.com/things/ckV78PATFAz Egg Bottom: https://www.tinkercad.com/things/8UTse29Vg3b