Uploaded June 2019 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
A long time between uploads for me but I'm finally back with another magnet video.
A special thanks to Magnetic Games for his recent encouragement of my work by reproducing several of my shapes on his popular channel. I in turn got inspired by a recent video of his that featured an impressive looking geodesic sphere made of magnetic rods and balls:
youtube.com/watch?v=MnX609QLook
This got me re-examining how to build a true geodesic sphere of interconnected triangles from just magnetic balls alone, and I managed to find a simple way to build the geodesic dome known as frequency 2 (often notated as 2V) of 40 triangles, and the corresponding sphere of 80 triangles.
This is a pretty compressed part tutorial, part display video with just the essentials of how to build them from magnetic balls, if anyone else wants to.
The geodesic dome 2V requires 35 × 14 × 4 (longer struts) + 30 × 12 × 4 (shorter struts) + 20 × 6 × 2 (hexagonal joints) + 6 × 5 × 2 (pentagonal joints) = 3700 balls total.
The geodesic sphere 2V requires 60 × 7 × 4 (longer struts) + 60 × 6 × 4 (shorter struts) + 30 × 6 × 2 (hexagonal joints) + 12 × 5 × 2 (pentagonal joints) = 3600 balls total.
Music track is Connection by Wayne Jones, from the YouTube free audio library.
#ledwatchman #Neocube #Neoballs #Nanodots #ZenMagnets #Speks #Buckyballs #NingoBalls #CyberCube #KlikyBalls #howto
A long time between uploads for me but I'm finally back with another magnet video.
A special thanks to Magnetic Games for his recent encouragement of my work by reproducing several of my shapes on his popular channel. I in turn got inspired by a recent video of his that featured an impressive looking geodesic sphere made of magnetic rods and balls:
youtube.com/watch?v=MnX609QLook
This got me re-examining how to build a true geodesic sphere of interconnected triangles from just magnetic balls alone, and I managed to find a simple way to build the geodesic dome known as frequency 2 (often notated as 2V) of 40 triangles, and the corresponding sphere of 80 triangles.
This is a pretty compressed part tutorial, part display video with just the essentials of how to build them from magnetic balls, if anyone else wants to.
The geodesic dome 2V requires 35 × 14 × 4 (longer struts) + 30 × 12 × 4 (shorter struts) + 20 × 6 × 2 (hexagonal joints) + 6 × 5 × 2 (pentagonal joints) = 3700 balls total.
The geodesic sphere 2V requires 60 × 7 × 4 (longer struts) + 60 × 6 × 4 (shorter struts) + 30 × 6 × 2 (hexagonal joints) + 12 × 5 × 2 (pentagonal joints) = 3600 balls total.
Music track is Connection by Wayne Jones, from the YouTube free audio library.
#ledwatchman #Neocube #Neoballs #Nanodots #ZenMagnets #Speks #Buckyballs #NingoBalls #CyberCube #KlikyBalls #howto
