MOC-9407 Temple of Jupiter – Jovilabe (turntablis maximus)

A jovilabe is a mechanical mannequin of Jupiter and it moons – on this case solely the 4 largest moons (aka the Galilean moons) are depicted.  All 4 moons revolve round Jupiter at ratios just like that in the actual world.  Relative to Io, Europa takes twice as lengthy to finish its orbit of Jupiter, Ganymede takes four occasions as lengthy, and Callisto takes about 9.four occasions as lengthy to complete its orbit. (Note: the actual Callisto takes 9.43 Io “days” to orbit Jupiter, our Callisto takes 9.38 Io “days”.) This mannequin doesn’t try and reveal

relative measurement and distance, and colours are approximate.The total inspiration for this venture comes from the LEGO Orrery by JKBrickworks. Assembling, and working (aka taking part in with) that mannequin was a lot enjoyable, we have been motivated to try our personal LEGO creation.  After tossing round just a few completely different concepts, we settled upon a associated idea to the orrery – the jovilabe.

The temple used for the bottom of our jovilabe is (considerably) primarily based upon reconstructions of the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus (aka Temple of Jupiter Capitolinus) from historical Rome.  We saved our temple easy and streamlined as its principal function is to cover the gearing and supply a steady base.  As an added bonus, it’s fairly near being in scale with minifigs.  If anybody ends up constructing this jovilabe for themselves, we encourage you to decorate/adorn your temple – add some friezes, statues, cornices, put some torches on the partitions, and so on. – have enjoyable with it.

Jupiter is just about a Lowell sphere, although with out a backside and with a barely flattened high (we needed to reveal just a little of Jupiter’s oblateness).  For area causes (no pun meant) and since we already had gears off all sides of each worm gears, we opted to not have Jupiter rotate on its axis.  If you’re up for a problem, there may be one axle operating up via the turntables that’s not related to any gearing.  You might have so as to add one more layer of turntables and maybe one other worm gear (and take away the four x 6 brick below Jupiter), however a spinning Jupiter might, in concept, be included.

This mannequin was a collaboration between thegreaterfuture and saharafrog.

Notes:

1)  Other than Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, we used crimson bricks/plates primarily for inside

construction and to assist differentiate issues within the construct (and since crimson bricks

are typically low cost).  Substitute no matter colours you need, are low cost, or are

available.

2) Yellow items (true yellow, not brilliant gentle orange) are non-obligatory.  They

are included within the construct to assist place different items correctly.

3)  Sorry in regards to the turntables and the amount used – however these are those that labored

greatest.

Acknowledgements:

Jason at JKBrickworks (creator of the orrery)

Rebrickable(host of many MOCs)

Robert Munafo(LEGO gear ratio look-up [for Callisto, the others were kind of obvious])

Bruce Lowell(Lowell sphere creator)

As effectively as our plethora of suppliers: from BrickHyperlink (Alamo City Bricks, Bricks on the Dollar, CALBrickLab,

Kentuckiana Bricks, Laugh it up fuzzball!, LDC’s Toy Bricks & Blocks, LittleFigs,

NEXUS GM Brick Store, Plastic_Packrats_Palace, and starwarfan77), from BrickOwl

(AZBRICKS, Belgiumbricks, Bricksbythepound, JB Bricks and Pieces, the Hellmouth,

We Game to Please, and We Love What You Build), ebay person peggyoung, Bricks

& Minifigs, and ToyProfessional.com.