RSSTensegrity cell phone holder
Wan writes "Based on the tensegrity coffee table article, we made a cell phone holder out of some sticks and fishing lines. We had a few false starts, a couple of complete failures, and learned a few things about tensegrity based structures from making this little scale model." - Link.
Related:
Building Tensegrity Models. Make a "needle tower" sculpture from dowels and elastic cord that seems to defy the laws of physics. MAKE 06 - Page 100.
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Jun 14, 2006 02:22 PM
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| Posted by: Raelx on June 14, 2006 at 12:52 PM |
It looks like the sticks are touching. And from what I remember from the article that would make it NOT a tenserigid structure.
| Posted by: RosiGirl on June 14, 2006 at 2:32 PM |
The one in the photo only have the co-rotating diagonals connected...so the structure NEEDED the weight of the cell phone to make it stable :-)
In a later model we added the fishing lines to the other points...which created the tension from the counter rotating diagonals. That structure is stable without the cell phone's weight and the pieces do not touch.
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