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Ridiculous and lovely wooden sphere

Over at Make: Blog, George Hart shows that if you put a challenge out there, no matter how crazy, someone might just do it. So 15 years after he made some plans for a theoretical sphere made with 480 wooden pieces and 960 connections, someone actually built it. In this case it was Thomas Guethner of Trostberg, Germany. It's a ridiculous project to take on, but I'm happy that he did it, the results look great!

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May 24, 2010. 4:48 PMkillerjackalope says:
Awesome, we made a dome out of hula hoops the other day for an art project, sadly no pics...  
May 25, 2010. 4:32 AMKryptonite says:
Don't you have a phone!?!
May 25, 2010. 3:00 PMkillerjackalope says:
A bit of dirt wormed its way throughout the phone and ended up inside the camera lens, rendering only slightly more useless than original, it was evening by the time it was done so was going to be hopeless... Hopefully the press will have some photos though... 
May 26, 2010. 6:11 AMKryptonite says:
Just check out the international news crew, I think I saw it on over here in Australia just the other day so they should have it.

After all, it is big news.
May 24, 2010. 7:55 PMfozzy13 says:
Now just scale it up using wooden pallets and walk inside it.. Anyone up for the challenge?
May 24, 2010. 8:48 PMkelseymh says:
Why aren't you doing it?
May 25, 2010. 3:54 AMfozzy13 says:
Because I'm doing a billion other projects right now, and I'm in school currently, but most of all I'd have no place to store it if I built it : /.. That and my mom would destroy me..
May 25, 2010. 4:31 AMKryptonite says:
Just build it in your attic.
May 25, 2010. 3:25 PMfozzy13 says:
That would be great, except for the fact that my attic is already full of my parents's old stuff and if I was going to build it big enough to walk inside of, it wouldn't fit in there : /
May 26, 2010. 6:10 AMKryptonite says:
My attic must be a little bigger than yours. Damn!

I always built all my illigitemate items up there, away from prying eyes.
May 25, 2010. 1:32 PMSAMIER says:
 cool
May 25, 2010. 5:14 AMporcupinemamma says:
really pretty, and very cool
May 24, 2010. 4:29 PMTool Using Animal says:
Fungus, looks like it should be George Hart, not Gareth....
May 24, 2010. 2:39 PMTool Using Animal says:
Once it is completely assembled, it looks like you could remove the fasteners without it falling apart.
May 24, 2010. 4:21 PMhintss says:
stick bomb time!
May 24, 2010. 3:31 PMnickodemus says:
It looks that way... They all seem to overlap, but good luck trying to get him to take it apart.
May 24, 2010. 3:24 PMKiteman says:
I don't think so...

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