Air Tops (Customizable Helicopter Toy)

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This is a small, quick printing, flying toy. Spinning the Air Top like normal top (except handle facing down) should be enough to provide some positive vertical motion. To get higher/longer flights the Air Top can be spun using by placing the handle between your middle finger and thumb while snapping your fingers. This toy can be modified using the "Open in Customizer" button in Thingiverse. Or you can download the .scad file and open the design with OpenSCAD on your computer and modify it there. The three bladed version shown uses the default settings in customizer. The two bladed version shown requires a 40mm handle and changing the number of blades from three to two. These models print in about 6 minutes, I used: Layer Height: 0.2 mm Wall Thickness of 0.8 mm and 25% fill for the prints shown in the pictures/video. Here is a very short YouTube video showing them in action: https://youtu.be/o-odv3DL_RA