Phenakistoscope Fidget Spinner

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I have been messing around with these fidget spinners for a while now as I have made several designs despite not uploading them anywhere, partly because there were a lot of them anyways and I hadn't made anything spectacularly different. However every time I made one I thought about how I could make my spinners stand out. I tried spray painting, messing with different shapes and patterns etc. But today I had the idea to turn one of these into a phenakistoscope, as it seemed like a pretty good idea. So what I did was I just searched for a gif, which then I separated into its frames using an online separator. So now get your favorite gif and turn it into a fidget spinner! Also, feel free to modify the design as you wish to accommodate more frames etc. Disclaimer: You can't see it with your eyes and will need a phone camera or something along those lines. The video I shot was on an iPhone 7 in the slow-mo setting, without actually slowing down the video. The working principle of this isn't exactly the same as a phenakistoscope but it is pretty similar. The tolerances are extremely tight and probably won't work well if your printer isn't calibrated correctly, so if it doesn't work try printing 1% or 2% bigger. Also, for the main body, try to have the frames come to the top, meaning that there will be an overhang. However this overhang is easily closed, so support isn't necessary. But obviously if you want to use it I can do nothing to stop you. As I said in the summary, for the images what I did was search for a running man gif, which I then separated on a online website (https://ezgif.com/split). The website is actually pretty good and labels each picture with its frame name. Then after I downloaded the pictures from the website I cropped them to 1.5cm by 1.5cm. The rest is pretty straightforward, where you just print and cut the frames before sticking them to the main body using a regular glue stick in order.