i feel like tops have become something of a rage the past five years or so but maybe i’m wrong, with this many kickstarter projects how impossible can it be
Kind of the difference between a plain wood yo-yo of the 1920s and the ball bearing, perfectly balanced high tech yo-yos produced today. One is a toy for a child, the other for a teen or adult.
One of my favorites was the ‘U’ shaped wire frame handle with the red plastic spinner that had magnetic tips and tracked over and under the handle, around and around.
That and the old gyro you yanked a string off of the axel to spin it.
Wholesome toys that introduced you to physics
Who knew angular momentum was so much fun?
I got a CNC lathe last year and have been thinking lately that it could turn out tops pretty quickly and the GF could make nice little storage boxes for them. They’d make nice Christmas presents for friends and family.