Moving components ring

The idea behind this ring was to creat ring that have small components that makes part of the ring but moves independly from the ring.The concept comes from moving blinds.

With this ring I was pushing my abilities both on design and manufacturing, the moving of small components along the channel. My inspiration for this ring comes from moving blinds; the idea was to design a ring that have small components moving like exactly the blinds, that ‘linear motion” of the blinds. But the thing that was real challenging about this piece was how to put it together.

Firstly I started by making it in the bench, because I was not too sure where to start. I had some problems when I was fitting these components on the ring. The were not flowing smoothly on the groove. So then I have to consider the way I manufactured this ring, the next step is to cut all the pieces on the CNC and then cast it. But with this way I had problem about how I cut this components on the CNC.