Uploaded February 2011 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
A dodecahedron frame built from 5mm neodymium ball magnets.
(A dodecahedron is a 3D geometric form with 12 regular pentagonal faces, 30 edges and 20 vertices).
This is not a difficult shape to build, it doesn't take much courage to tackle, but it does take a lot of balls.
It is made entirely from hexagon elements of 18 balls each, a total of 220 edge 3 hexagons, which is 3960 neodymium ball magnets, (1800 golden and 2160 nickel plated in my design). I built it simply from 20 subunits of 11 hexagons, 1 set of 11 for every vertex or golden corner piece, with 5 gold and 6 nickel hexagons each.
The joints only just support it's weight at this size, but it can still be lifted and rotated carefully.
Music is the Nocturne No.2 in E flat by Chopin.
#ledwatchman #Neocube #Neoballs #Nanodots #ZenMagnets #Speks #Buckyballs #NingoBalls #CyberCube #KlikyBalls #NeoQube
A dodecahedron frame built from 5mm neodymium ball magnets.
(A dodecahedron is a 3D geometric form with 12 regular pentagonal faces, 30 edges and 20 vertices).
This is not a difficult shape to build, it doesn't take much courage to tackle, but it does take a lot of balls.
It is made entirely from hexagon elements of 18 balls each, a total of 220 edge 3 hexagons, which is 3960 neodymium ball magnets, (1800 golden and 2160 nickel plated in my design). I built it simply from 20 subunits of 11 hexagons, 1 set of 11 for every vertex or golden corner piece, with 5 gold and 6 nickel hexagons each.
The joints only just support it's weight at this size, but it can still be lifted and rotated carefully.
Music is the Nocturne No.2 in E flat by Chopin.
#ledwatchman #Neocube #Neoballs #Nanodots #ZenMagnets #Speks #Buckyballs #NingoBalls #CyberCube #KlikyBalls #NeoQube
