How to make a Cotton Swab Icosahedron

In geometry, an Icosahedron is a regular polyhedron with 20 identical equilateral triangular faces, 30 edges and 12 vertices. It is one of the five Platonic solids.
You will need 30 Cotton Swabs & Hot glue.

[@pinkbellas]

This is awesome! I'll definitely do this for my Geometry assignment. Thanks for the idea!

[@katherandefy]

This is such a pretty shape. I love pentagons.

[@kamtasingh6089]

Thank You So Much....I was very tensed about how I will make the project but you made it easy and simple..... Thanks a lot.....

[@kgomotsomotlhake4317]

Beautiful! ❤️

[@anniejuan1817]

Oh, Yes!! I'm so using this for my Laban Movement Analysis studies!

[@tracievanderschauw8172]

great job this was a fun project to do

[@StreetLove410]

Can't Wait To Make This And Share With My 7 yr. young Niece. I Thank You For Sharing♦️💚

[@turquoisecoleman6437]

OMGGgggg !!!!!!!! That's Awesome !!!! Many thanks !!!👍

[@Supermugii]

Easy to make, also simple

[@user-ze7cg7it6j]

U r so good! Thanks!

[@Bijou_248]

Thank you so much, this project is made easy to do, no rulers or pens needed. 🎉

[@user-hs7qg5tt8t]

AMAZING!!

[@leonardomachado9423]

You saved my ass. I have a college project due next week that's basically building an overcomplicated geometric shape that makes us think of a song we like. I made this (a bit tricky in the corners, but I got there) and I'm gonna pick "Kids" from Stranger Things as the song for it. Thank you 10/10 awesome tutorial!

[@animelover-gd4hm]

Lol

[@animelover-gd4hm]

Nice idea

[@neo0012000]

Nice idea

[@anjaliuda991]

The principle which you used was very simple

[@CptGuapo]

Simple and nice.

[@lamtuyenphanthi7112]

Would do it to assign my kids!

[@spamsausage]

pretty cool!

[@RimstarOrg]

Neat. This opens up all kinds of ideas for simple things to make.

[@emmamaples7517]

SO COOL!

[@lerassz0]

Thank you!

[@desiraewright9761]

Cool never did anything like it

[@harikaprasadam4403]

Superb....

[@DavidWestBgood2ppl]

That's cool. I googled 5 platonic solids... I see they are 4,6,8,10, and 20 sided. Makes me think of the facets that a diamond cutter creates,but I guess he's just covering a surface with multiple facets. Thanks.

[@minalamichanne6522]

Nice triangle

[@KeinHollandPro]

realy cool :)

[@JoeyJ0J0]

Stacy Dilsen would be proud.

[@dollykumari700]

It's preety ❤

[@animelover-gd4hm]

Can I use this to make head of a BACTERIOPHAGE ???

[@hemraj338]

Thnku g Vry nyc

[@user-io9zn9ok5k]

as well as the s called the glue gun?

[@rkarthik4u]

genius! by the way i want a truncated icosahedron(football)

[@prizmarvalschi1319]

I suggest using wooden ones cuz the plastic ones I used just disintegrated

[@snlove187]

Nice

[@khadeejashajahan7582]

U r work is very awesome!! For best results which gum should be used????

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Thats cooool😎😎😎😎

[@ramonhamm3885]

I always get a room full of gluey spiderwebs when I use my hot glue gun.

[@RiquiZin]

Thanks man, hug from Brazil 🇧🇷

[@mayamagar8603]

Nice and thanku

[@nikolajelincic8302]

almost worked but I didn't do a pentagon at the start I did a hexagon

[@MuzikBike]

if you do that, you could tesselate the entire world.

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A guy That draws are you kidding me?

[@sweetiepie7396]

Genius xxx

[@dashajdashaj9792]

thanks

[@giography2697]

Is it rhombiscosidodecahedron?

[@ashoktambe8506]

It's so simple yarr

[@yourdad3332]

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[@deepanavale531]

Tq for my model 😍🤗

[@swancrow6339]

any help on how i can make a 6ft one of these that i can stand in?

[@anniejuan1817]

I have not made this, but I was lucky enough to move around inside one and I briefly looked at how it was made. This can be taken apart for transport and storage. You need 30 dowel rods. Calculate the dowel length by taking the desired height of the completed project (72 inches) and divide by the Golden Ratio (1.618) = about 44.5" However, if you are intending to move inside it, make it bigger, so you have room. I'd like one that is 6'8" tall (the height of a standard door), which means the dowels would be 49.44 " Find a hose that the dowels rods will fit into snugly. You might look in the plumbing section of a home improvement store, or in refrigerator replacement parts.) The dowels fit into bits of hose at the vertices of the icosahedron. The bits of hose were each a couple inches long. The vertices of the one I played with were sort of hot-glued-and-rubber-banded together. I don't remember if they used 5 short pieces, or 2 longer ones and 1 short one, to create each 5-part vertex. Let me know if you figure this part out! The flexibility of the hose will correct for some errors.

[@swancrow6339]

@@anniejuan1817 Thanks a lot! Since making this post, I enquired around and managed to find someone, they run a 3D shop and the joiners will be made from recycled plastic designed in a 3D printer, and will be able to transport. We are making it around 6’8 too. How did it make you feel when you inside it?

[@anniejuan1817]

@@swancrow6339 I was only in it for a moment or two, and I hadn't started studying LMA, so it wasn't as meaningful as it would be now. Are you willing to share where you are getting the connectors created? Also, I realized that the calculations I did above did not account for the connectors, and that those lengths might result in a slightly bigger icosahedron than intended.

[@AkangkshaSarmah]

Is there any alternative for hot glue?

[@katherandefy]

Plain ole white glue

[@ramonhamm3885]

Now how do you get that in your ear? 😆

[@cooleslaw]

Yes.

[@roykallarangattu4066]

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[@user-ze7cg7it6j]

You are amazing!! Can you make a soccer ball (Truncated icosahedron)? If you can, please KZbin us? Thank you

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2020 Coronavirus pandemic period anyone ?

[@SimSpartan]

i made that with a magnet set

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Wow

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👍

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2019 anyone

[@YaMatuo]

How this use?

[@nanac5373]

It's useful as a teaching tool for a number of different subjects, starting with geometry.

[@TheZein2]

why am i watching this..

[@Epiphine]

Because icosahedron is one of the platonic solid it represent water element and it is part of the sacred geometry which is the creation of yhe universe

[@michaelwinter742]

Because you commented on it seven years ago and some bozo replied, notifying you to check the reply and, this, see the video again.

[@TheZein2]

@@michaelwinter742 and here I am 7 years later with a Math degree

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[@bacon.cheesecake]

Now you need to truncate it somehow

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[@marcocruz7882]

really?

[@tracievanderschauw8172]

and can you try to do it a little slower thanks

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[@kalimeraHellas]

is Platonic solids lend to justice and democracy?

[@vaethe]

You would need 600 dollars to make one out of juuls. Not including tax

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Dont use superglue

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Watching this video after 7 years😐😂

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Impress your math teacher..

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[@Flareix.]

⚠TRICKY TO MAKE⚠ but definitely worth it

[@LeggyGuard2]

pics or it didn't happend

[@Neiron0809wtf]

"Will it blend"? that is the question

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Who else is here from a school assignment oof

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but why?

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why am i watching this..

[@yourdad3332]

atef saeed don't know, maybe coz you've got a creative brain.