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Originally Posted by erick
I checked the price and shipping - very reasonable and it is an Australian product! Must save my pennies and support them.
"We are a small business based in Sydney Australia, with an interest in reviving objects from the past and introducing some new. Creating learning tools that are interactive, stylish and unusual. Objects that can be displayed in your home or office that will be a topic of conversation. The mini3 is the first of our planetary designs with more products currently on the drawing board. The mini3 is entirely produced in Australia and there has been hundreds of hours in the design and testing to bring it to you at an affordable price, this is not a mass produced plastic product we pride ourselves on this and are only producing limited numbers of the mini3 making them a collectable. We do hope you enjoy your mini3 as much as we have in bringing them to you and welcome your feedback."
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We were very pleased with it. My daughter had designed a working system of gears and wanted to construct one as a school project.
Unfortunately my wood-working skills were not up to the task. As she had modeled the entire thing in CAD, we cast about for a laser-cutting service to make up the parts for us, then stumbled across planetaria in out searches. The cost of getting parts cut was way more than the cost of the kit, so we settled for the pre-cut kit.
It turned out great though, and it has been used already in her class to get across a whole swathe of concepts from gearing, to manufacturing, discussion of the venus transit, phases of the moon and so on. We built a small light to replace the 'Sun' in the middle to show the night/day cycles. It has been a great educational tool, and also looks great on her side-table.
It was a really worthwhile exercise and we enjoyed designing our own, even though we bought a kit in the end, the build was very satisfying.
Sensational.
