Today Microsoft released four free, downloadable designs for people to make their own playable yoyos! We have no idea how playable they actually are, but for a three-piece plastic they probably work about as well as a Duncan Imperial or Duncan Butterfly.
Plus, started from a digital file means they should be fairly easy to alter so you can use these as a jumping-off point and potentially come up with something way better! 3D printing is still in its infancy, and other than Fluid Print Dynamics and the Plasticuda musings of Rafael Matsunaga, we haven’t seen much yoyo-related come from this technology yet. Hats off to Microsoft for the free files that should, hopefully, kickstart someone’s creativity.
Head over to the Microsoft Thingverse store to download all four designs for free.
Yo Steve, you said there are four designs, and then you referred us to a link that were we could download “all five designs.” Just a slight typo 🙂
AH! Fixed…thanks for the heads up!
I agree I haven’t promoted much, and that will change soon, just wanted to point out quite a lot has been done.
“other than Fluid Print Dynamics and the Plasticuda musings of Rafael Matsunaga, we haven’t seen much yoyo-related come from this technology yet”
I would very much disagree with that, since there has been a company doing it for several years now. http://www.kyostoys.com
“haven’t seen much”
Sorry Kyle. I often forget you’re doing this because I never actually see anything you are making. Maybe if you could post pics regularly and encourage people to post theirs and talk about them we wouldn’t keep forgetting about you!
Kyle Weems has been making 3d printed yoyos for a while! This is the one I have. http://i.imgur.com/TwpTNJX.jpg
This is CRAZY! Can’t wait to try one of these!