Make it real
Projects are judged by what they do on the bench, on the machine, or in the hand. The goal is useful, tangible work.
About Desire3D
Precision motion, practical engineering, and useful experiments.
Desire3D brings together handmade spinning tops, phone-based measurement, CNC machining, casting, 3D printing, electronics, and a growing record of real test results in one workshop space.
What Desire3D is about
The aim is simple: make physical things well, test them honestly, and document the useful parts of the journey.
Desire3D started from hands-on making: spinning tops, home-built machines, 3D printers, small electronics, casting work, and the constant need to improve the next version. The site now acts as a workshop front door, a product gallery, and a growing archive of projects.
The current focus is precision spinning tops and the tools around them. That includes careful material choices, CNC machining, surface finish, balance, spin behaviour, TopSpin 1.0 for measuring RPM, spin time, decay and relative vibration, and a community results page for comparing real runs.
Older projects remain part of the story too. RepRap printers, windmills, robotics, PCB work, and other experiments are kept in the legacy archive because good ideas are worth preserving, even when the workshop moves on to new tools.
How the work is approached
Desire3D is built around practical progress: design, test, measure, refine, then keep the notes so the next version starts stronger.
Measure the result
Good work improves when it can be tested. TopSpin turns motion into data, and the results database makes repeated runs easier to compare and share.
Keep improving
Every cut, cast, print, and test teaches something. Small changes compound into better parts and cleaner processes.
Explore the workshop
Start with the current products and testing tools, then follow the archive into earlier machines and experiments.
Gallery
Finished tops, workshop photos, spin videos, machining footage, and testing examples.
TopSpin App
The Android testing app used to measure spinning top RPM, vibration, decay, and stability.
TopSpin Results
Real submitted runs grouped by top name, including RPM, spin time, decay, VIBES and source screenshots.
Legacy Projects
Older builds including RepRap printers, windmills, robotics, electronics, and other maker projects.