Maypole Braiding Machine

As the tags suggest, this design is not practically printable. The design is largely made to mimic similar concepts, but on a much smaller scale. I have always found braiding machines wondrous for their simple nature, such that they have been around for more than a century. They are, however, rather difficult to print given all their moving parts which require clearances and may only be viable at large sizes, which obviously doesn't work for small home printers.

Still the exercise of drawing