Avocado gear ball fidget toy (Patreon)

I teamed up with Ruven Bals, a designer colleague of mine to bring you a 3d scanned gear ball avocado! Ruven is famous for his gear ball and fidget designs, and we wanted to make something exceptional.

We have been working on this for several months in between other projects and it was more complex than initially thought. Getting the assembly process understandable was the most difficult part. I think we solved this quite well. A design that has a lot of moving parts AND a complex organic shape is something truly difficult.

Description

This project is a collaboration between RuvenBals and me.

A mesmerizing fidget avocado. 3d scanned and modified into a highly detailed gear ball for your entertainment.

Instructions

Print all 14 gears, the heart and 14 connectors.

All gears have a number and direction that corresponds with the number on the heart surfaces. The bigger gears have them in actual numbers on the bottom. The direction of the numbers on the heart matches the direction of the numbers on the gears. The smaller gears have several indentations on the side. The number of these correspond with the number on the heart. One of the indentations is bigger than the others on each small gear. This bigger indentation must point towards the corresponding number on the heart.

Insert all connectors into the heart.

Insert gear number 4

Insert gear number 14 next. These two have the part where the avocado was attached to the tree on them. By keeping those two in the right rotation while assembling the rest reduces the chances for errors.

Insert the rest of the gears with attention to the numbers and directions as instructed above.

Have fun!

Troubleshooting

Gears skipping: I had a problem with the Gears skipping and getting stuck when I used different filaments for the Gears and the Heart. Try using the same filament for both. If that dost help scale the Heart a little smaller or the gears a little Bigger.

Connectors Break: Print them solid. 100% infill or enough walls. Maybe scale them if they happen to be too big for the holes.

Size assembled: 90 x 70 x 70 mm

Print settings

Material usage: 100g

Material: PLA

Print direction: stls are rotated correctly, check images

Support: none

Nozzle size: 0,4 mm

Line width: 0,4 mm

Layer height 0,2 mm

Infill: 15%

Build plate adhesion type: none or a brim if your printer has suboptimal bed adhesion. Be aware that the removal of a brim on this design might take a few minutes.

Licensing

Individual purchases, free downloads and and all memberships besides the tiers that specifically allow for commercial use are for personal use only! Make sure to fully read and understand the License