MakerBottable Dome!
I grew up with domes. I was born while my dad was studying with Buckminster Fuller and I had a dome playhouse so I love this project! It’s a dome! You print out the connectors and saw some dowels and you’re good to make your own dome.
Peep it at the Fabricating Blog and go check out the dome connector thing on Thingiverse!
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Rashad Glover
This looks great dude.
Jeff Moe
Fantastico.
3D-printable buckydome brackets « The tech telecom and all
[...] This project illustrates the awesomeness of Thingiverse and open hardware. User c60 created some nifty geodesic dome brackets with the idea of using them with repurposed tent poles. While a great start, c60 didn’t have the math completely figured out and asked the Thingiverse community to pitch in. EFFALO of the Fabricating Blog rose to the challenge and printed out 20 hexagonal and 6 pentagonal connectors and used the math calculator found on DesertDomes.com to determine strut lengths. Voila, a dome! [via the MakerBot blog] [...]