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How to make a Buckminsterfullerene (and other fun shapes) from LEGO

  • Andrew
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  • Jan 25, 2008
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  • Building Techniques, LEGO
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    • It all started with a man named Bucky. Well, maybe Bram. Okay, possibly Jon. Whatever. The latest building trend seems to be buckyballs, icosahedrons, dodecahedrons, rhombicosidodecahedrons, and ‘hedrons of all sorts. I’m going to call the trend Hedronism.

    Here’s Bram Lambrecht’s original (virtual) design, alongside the first one built from “real” LEGO, by Kevin Heckel:

    Adrian Drake gave it a try, and Ley Ward tried a different design:

    Finally, my favorite of the bunch, another buckyball by Ley:

    Long live Hedronism!

    Andrew posted this entry on Friday, January 25th, 2008 at 10:51 pm. Posted in the category Building Techniques, LEGO You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

    2 Responses to “How to make a Buckminsterfullerene (and other fun shapes) from LEGO”

    1. wusmand Says:
      January 26th, 2008 at 8:01 am

      have you attemped to see if you can make any flexible balls, like the ones that are big and can be compacted into little balls?

    2. Akos Says:
      January 28th, 2008 at 4:19 am

      I have made one back in 2004:

      http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/5599

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