Make your own geodesic dome

Geodesic domes were once all the rage in architecture. Rob shows how to make a model of one and then scale it up to something you can get into - all done with cardboard.

[@A3Kr0n]

Richard Buckminster Fuller (July 12, 1895 - July 1, 1983) was an American architect, systems theorist, writer, designer, inventor, philosopher, and futurist....Fuller developed numerous inventions, mainly architectural designs, and popularized the widely known geodesic dome. ; carbon molecules known as fullerenes were later named by scientists for their structural and mathematical resemblance to geodesic spheres. -Wikipedia

[@gorilla_with_jetpack4102]

Buckminsterfullerene - bucky ball. Atomic master craft.

[@mce_AU]

Try it on your geodesic shape loving friends.

[@BellefontePerson]

"Mom, call Dad at work and tell him to buy twelve refrigerators on his way home from work. I'm going to need the boxes."

[@dave.p153]

I still remember as a kid thinking what amazing technology the compass was lol

[@sean---the-other-one]

And it is. It’s simplicity belies it’s power. The concept also helped navigation across the seas.

[@dave.p153]

@@sean---the-other-one knew someone that could operate a Sexton, I think it was called ?

[@sean---the-other-one]

@@dave.p153 Sextant. They’re very cool too. Between the two tools they’re massively responsible for world navigation. And the other sort of compass, too.

[@BarryMcCawkiner]

I was so hoping you were going to show a full-size dome that you could actually step into. That would be fun even as an adult.

[@supermewkitty7025]

Why is Rob always dressed as a doctor and Dean is a Miami Vice styled cop?

[@balaam_7087]

🎵Whether igloo, hut or lean-to, or a geodesic dome, there’s no structure I have been to which I’d rather call my home…🎵

[@gamermasta525]

Buddy that's what brought me here

[@jayluck8047]

Beat me to it.

[@godfreypoon5148]

I must compliment Rob on his rather sharp looking brown skivvy.

[@purvel]

This is gonna be a hit with the kids! Wish someone taught me this as a kid, would have been so much better than the cardboard tipi we had (:Clever little greenscreen timesaver at the end there! ;)

[@bomberdan]

“Coming up next - make your own Geodesic Dome!”

[@supermewkitty7025]

And so Rob sheltered all homeless people in cardboard domes

[@mce_AU]

Cardboard flat earthers (cflerfers) believe that the cardboard flat earth is covered by a cardboard geodesic dome. True story. 🙂

[@thomasflores7817]

Anyone else get chills from the marker on the cardboard sound?

[@randymarsh9488]

I love me some "COD"Board

[@Chocomint_Queen]

Swear for just a second I could smell the marker lol

[@crystalincyberspace]

I get the physical reaction even thinking about stuff like that. Especially cotton wool, yuck!!!

[@idjles]

that end scene was a green-screen cheat. Rob didn't make the full size tents! We had a geodesic dome in the 70's that was about 10 meters wide and could easily fit about 50 people.

[@sean---the-other-one]

There’s always one

[@Daijaga]

Off to make my own giant geodesic d20, thanks Rob!

[@lundsweden]

Try this with all your geometry loving friends!

[@perentee77]

Arghh 4.13!!! Crickey..

[@walksonland1977]

I had to rewatch to see what you meant, meaning I had to endure it twice haha

[@MrElvis1971]

I would like to have a geodesic in a Lorenzian Manifold.

[@carneeki]

If we wanted to add more and more belts to get a fuller dome shape, how many triangles would we need on the second and third belts? I'm curious to know if it's an arithmetic or geometric progression and what the rules are for it.

[@tabaccount6113]

Urgh please dont use that pen on cardboard again. Made me shudder