Building a Tensegrity

Building up Buckminster Fuller's tensegrity.
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/tictac/20060219

Here is a large photo of the parts.
http://f.hatena.ne.jp/tictac/20060220002737
wooden stick: length = 120mm, dia. = 5mm, depth of slot = 5mm.
cotton thread: length = 126mm, it has clots of school glue at both ends.

I use thirty parts in this video.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• Buckminster
• Fuller
• tensegrity
• Kenneth
• Snelson
• テンセグリティの作り方

[jorged06]

Brilliant! I´m an architecture professor in the Univerity of Buenos Aires and this is perfect for my students to watch and become familiar with the concept of tensegrity. Doumo arigatou gozaimasu

[naosuke]

Dou itashi mashite.

[wanderingwilson]

could you tell me what you used for the pieces. are they dowels and rubber bands or what.thankyou

[naosuke]

hi.

each piece consists of a wooden stick and a cotton thread.

i added video description and please read it for details.

thanks.

[FantinoLatino]

Cool class!!!!

[xuraofbeats323]

how many dowels did you use on this tensegrity?

[pekonskid]

i would like to know how one can find out the co ordinates of the points on the sphere. i need this info to input the model on ansys to find out the behaviour of the individual members under load.

[Woopeehole1337]

Great stuff. Helped me a lot for my engineering class. Now I have something to show!

[ScaredCrows]

this is a semitensegrity structure

[sheep41]

you can make them really easily. just buy wooden dowel and cut to size. then use a scroll/ban saw to get the grooves where u need to place the string/cotton/line/elastic whatever!

[secretmatter]

Did you make those sticks or did you buy them, like that?

[ngorman03]

Thanks for the great video, but how did you cut the slats narrow enough so the string does not pop out or are you using a fixative of some sort. What blade/tool did you use?

Thank you

[Radjehuty]

Gorgeous. It looks similar to an icosidodecahedron, but it can be described as several other polyhedra as well! I've made dozens and dozens of polyhedra out of many types of different origami modules. I've yet to try doing them in Tensegrity! Thanks so much!