by news | Jul 31, 2014 | Design
Manocheese and truevox over on Reddit ask how you get in. Maybe I could make a video with the dummy but a few pictures should be enough. You rotate the sphere to this position, put your foot in the corner of the chair and enter while crouching. The motors will be...
by news | Jul 31, 2014 | Design
I go to bed leaving a private video uploading and youtube makes it public ! So the site and the design are not quite ready to go mainstream so I’d appreciate you go easy on me 🙂 The sphere doesn’t tip upside down, it’s more suited to Star Citizen...
by news | Jul 30, 2014 | Design
So if I need 20 hexagons and 12 pentagons for a full sphere how many connecting panels do I need…?? Um… 90! Plus 8 bolts per panel and 8 locking washers too, 1440 little pieces to lose! Well, bolts and washers are cheap and mass produced so this...
by news | Jul 30, 2014 | Design
I widened the base, dropped the sphere lower and also added another 3 castor wheels. Now it looks a lot less likely to tip over and start rolling down the street. I also added some tinted glass to the top parts, not to put in the final version (although I...
by news | Jul 30, 2014 | Design
The jump up from a half sphere seems quite a lot but lets figure out how much. Half Sphere = 6 Pentagons 5 hexagons 5 half hexagons The most recent version is 15 hexagons 11 pentagons 4 half hexagons So 16 parts verses 30 parts is virtually double. Add 6 half spheres...
by news | Jul 30, 2014 | Design
I rebuilt the sphere using repeating patterns and filling in the gaps I have left playing around with the shape.
