This is awesome! Maybe you can put some magnets in the sides so that it stays together when folded. That way you can make foldable dice for example. Not sure how useful it would be. Maybe there are better ways to make it stay in its form, like some kind of snapping mechanism...
MatthiasChristiaens thank you! i love the idea of using magnets, I just have to play around with that. I'm currently looking to roboticize these prints using cables and motors.
XYZAidan That's awesome! How is the project working out so far? Also I made a design a few hours ago of a cube with some kind of snapping thing (I can't really describe it). I'm not sure how it would work out because I don't have a 3D printer yet so I can't try it out unfortunately.
Thanks, it's working out well so far, however I anticipate some difficulty once I start attempting multidirectional bending. Your design sounds interesting, is it meant to be printed in a soft material?
Hey, by turning the sides into full pyramids rather than truncated ones, couldn't you make it so that folding the polyhedra the other way round makes their dual?
If that was done, the points of the pyramids would correspond with the vertex of the dual, but I don't think the backwards-folded shape would actually be the dual. This gives me a good idea though of making slots in the net to allow it to be folded around the dual. Might be something to play around with!
Nice project, Aidan. These look really cool to design and make. I think you might be able to use the rectangular pattern feature instead of copy+paste, that might reduce some of the steps. If I remember correctly, 123D has a similar feature.
Hey, for any reason do you need 14 barrings. They are quite dirty but i'm sure if you clean them up with WD40 they will work greatly. Just let me know and i can bring them to school!
