Lego Reuleaux Triangles

In point of fact, I don’t think the particular rounded triangles built by Instructables user sherrycayheyhey to show off this unconventional Lego technique are quite convex enough to be proper Reuleaux triangles. But the general ideaโ€”exploiting the small play in each of a large number of individual joints and, to a small extent, the flexibility of the bricks themselvesโ€”could probably be used to make very close approximations. You’d just have to make each side longer by the right amount.

I am descended from 5,000 generations of tool-using primates. Also, I went to college and stuff. I am a long-time contributor to MAKE magazine and makezine.com. My work has also appeared in ReadyMade, c't โ€“ Magazin fรผr Computertechnik, and The Wall Street Journal.

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