Tubular Dual Dodecahedron | 7920 Neodymium Magnetic Balls @ledwatchman

Uploaded July 2017 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago

Construction Notes:
Bulit from 40 R60 spheres,
1 3-layer reinforced icosahedron core (designed by dskiles222) with reverse polarity of 240 balls,
50 tubes of 6 rings of 6 magnet balls,
30 tubes of 14 rings of 6,
20 tubes of 8 rings of 6 to the core.
A total magnet count of 7920 balls.
(R in R60 stands for Rhombicosidodecahedron, which is an accurate geometric term for the little 60 ball spheres, but they are usually misnamed a C60 sphere, or buckyball)
All connections except the 20 spokes at the core are across triangular faces of 3 balls on the R60 spheres. Both ends of each hexagonal tube bond nicely to the R60s this way regardless of the different polarity at each end of a tube, but tubes of an even number of 6-rings are required to keep the R60s at each end oriented the same way. All the R60s are of the same polarity, but the 3-layer core is opposite.
Music track is Deep Haze by Kevin MacLeod, from the YouTube free music library.

#ledwatchman #Neocube #Neoballs #Nanodots #ZenMagnets #Speks #Buckyballs #NingoBalls #CyberCube #KlikyBalls #NeoQube

Deep Haze by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Source: incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100886
Artist: incompetech.com

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