Printed Modular Buckyball Lamp

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Michael Rule of Providence, Rhode Island, printed the 12 pentagonal and 20 hexagonal modules of his Atomic Sun lamp on a MakerBot. I have to say, it looks more like a viral capsid to me, but I can see why one might want to avoid that as a name. The models are available on Thingiverse.

8 thoughts on “Printed Modular Buckyball Lamp”

Shane Graber says:

February 9th, 2011 at 11:12 pm

If I only had a MakerBot… :)
Anonymous says:

February 10th, 2011 at 1:31 am

Is there actually Buckballs being used here? I don’t see any in the write-up.
Anonymous says:

February 10th, 2011 at 1:31 am

Is there actually Buckballs being used here? I don’t see any in the write-up.
1. Anonymous says:
  
  February 27th, 2011 at 2:39 am
  
  Probably not.
  My guess would be that the design choice supplied the name, and it sounds allot more fun than truncated icosahedron.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truncated_icosahedron