I need help with my school's project

[Dokkaebi]

Hello there, i am new to this website, so if i posted this in the wrong place please let me know.

For my school's final project i wanted to create a small replica of a maglev train, and i was looking online to see if anyone ever did this. Sadly i only seemed to find very small and not good looking projects, till i found takara tommy's 2015 project and the Aichi firm's 2020 one, which were exactly what i wanted to recreate.

Unluckily for me, the takara tommy's one is sold out and the Aichi firm's project has been suspended. Does anyone here know of any kit/premade product that i could use?

Or if there isnt, can anyone help me create one?

 

here are the links to the two projects i mentioned:
 

https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/13696482

https://newatlas.com/takara-tommy-linear-liner/39600/

 

Edited December 13 by Dokkaebi
i added the second link

[cteno4]

Elenco had the perfect maglev kit for this, but sadly out of production and stock it seems now. I have one and have taken it to many train shows with our club and visitors love it. Uses all the basic principles of a mag lev. The tomytec one is very expensive and 

 

there is a similar looking kit by discovery mind blown. It used wheels to align the train, the elenco did this with a magnets.

 

 

looking around there is this simpler kit on ebay.

 

you can do a fun demonstration in parts. One of our club members has used this at a few science events.

 

For the induction propulsion of a maglev with a coiled copper wire, battery, and neodymium magnets. You can get these parts on ebay and aliexpress (takes a week or two to ship to us usually)

 

 

and a simple setup to show how the magnetic levitation works. Can probably find these things at Home Depot and online or in whole kit form on Amazon.

 

 

there are a number of youtube videos out there on projects like this.

 

cheers,

 

jeff

[Kingmeow]

That middle video is cool!  I think I'm going to replicate and demo to my Robotics kids (high schoolers).  I bet they will get a kick out of it and more importantly, spur discussions on it.

[cteno4]

Yes the coil demonstration is very cool, folks love it. I have one somewhere and showed it a couple of times when we had the maglev setup. 
 

jeff

[Kingmeow]

2 hours ago, cteno4 said:

Yes the coil demonstration is very cool, folks love it. I have one somewhere and showed it a couple of times when we had the maglev setup. 
 

jeff

 

Do you remember how many feet of copper wire you used?  Video said 20 gauge but didn't say what length.

[cteno4]

It’s as long as you want to make your coil! It’s just a local linear induction field. You’ll need like 4cm of wire per loop, and probably a loop like every 3-4mm of coil length. One of our club members made his own, I cheated and bought a premade coil on aliexpress for like $5! 
 

cheers,
 

jeff

[Dokkaebi]

Hi again,

Thank you so much for the quick response! I really appreciate the help. I’ll definitely take your advice and do some more research on the topic to dive deeper into it since im very interested in this kind of projects. I’m also looking forward to seeing where it leads!

Thanks again for the support!

Alex

[cteno4]

Alex,

 

you are most welcome and please keep us posted on what you end up doing!

 

jeff