[Alexy Sha] has done this fantastic hack, where he modified a magnetic floating globe to be motorized and spin on a tilted axis. The original globe was simply levitating via a magnet mounted inside.

The decades-old globe, a piece of nostalgia for many Lucknowites, is now being replaced by a new stainless steel globe – which too will rotate – at the city’s Globe Park, in Qaiserbagh. The ...