About Desire3D

Precision Motion, practical engineering, and useful experiments.

Desire3D brings together handmade spinning tops, phone-based testing, CNC machining, casting, 3D printing, electronics, and archived maker projects in one focused workshop space.

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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, and the TopSpin Android app for measuring RPM, vibration, spin decay, and stability.

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.

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.

Measure the result

Good work improves when it can be tested. TopSpin is part of that mindset: turn motion into data and learn from it.

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.