Staggered Magnet Setup N-S-N-S

Papa Bale shows his new disc with staggered north and south magnets on one side. It's been spinning for a while and going pretty good. The thing with it being four equal pieces is that it's going to latch no matter what you do, so you need a stabilizer. In this instance, he used a six-inch stabilizer underneath. The setup has had very little wobble up until now. He's going to try doing more staggered permanent discs. He gives it a quick whip to show how it spins. The six-inch stabilizer isn't glued to the other discs so it slid around, but that was okay — it was just there to keep it from latching to the disc below. He notes that the spin is very, very smooth for a staggered magnet setup. He's thinking about doing more patterns: six magnets on, three off, and then a nine-on-eight-off pattern. He tries to put 72 magnets on each disc so he can stagger one with eight on, nine off, or nine on, eight off, because nine times eight is 72. He's been experimenting in his mind with what six degrees would look like. You lose 12 magnets but gain the ability to maybe turn it into a magnetic gear because there's enough space for the south pole to see through a little bit more. Then you could start going from pole to pole with the magnets all the way up around like a helix. He wants to make a double helix where sections spin going up. One starts at one point, another starts at a different point, and they weave around each other all the way up. He explains the section concept: three magnets per section, with the start and end of each section clearly defined. As for stabilization, you could put another piece of pegboard on the top glued down, but then you lose the modular ability. He thanks viewers for listening, asks them to subscribe for notifications, and says he's going a little bit farther down the rabbit hole every other day.