Toothpick Truncated Icosahedron (Buckyball) 

I 3D printed them. A link to where you can download the model is in the video description.

Or, you could use small styrofoam balls. Cheaper and faster, though not as strong.

@@wrsatl - but the white nodes have the proper angles for the links. If you try to do it with styrofoam balls you will need a guide or jig. I'll research that and edit this comment.

Or you can just use thermocol balls..lol,saves the pain...!

Can we make balls by using clay?

+Moronicsmurf The openings for the toothpicks are not co-planer and one of the openings is at a different angle than the other two so I am pretty sure the answer to your question about "equal" triangle is no. The design could certainly be scaled up though. You could make one large node (or "dot") and cast duplicates to make the full buckyball.

They are 3D printed parts. A link to model is in the video description. You can 3D print them yourself or order the parts from 3Dhubs or a similar service.

The white things are 3D printed plastic. I made mine out of PLA plastic.

No, I don't have any guidance on that.

Use 2 washers and double sided foam tape to make the hubs. .

@@JohnGuest45 - BUT the links have to be at a certain angle. Remember, the poster says "the hole with the mark" is for connecting the pentagons. Pause the video at 0:58 and 0:59

@@robertgraybeard3750 The angles are very easy as all the hubs are identical. A simple jig is all you need. Draw a circle the same size as the washer on a piece of paper. Using a protractor, make a mark/line in red pen at the top of the circle (0 degrees). Measure 124 degrees down on both sides of your red mark/line and make 2 blue marks/lines. The blue marks are where you connect the pentagon struts and the red one is where you connect the hexagon struts. The struts are all the same length so you dont have to worry.

There are companies that will make them for you. Click the "Order This Printed" button on the Thingiverse page. www.thingiverse.com/thing:629977

Alternative method of creating the 3 way hubs with flexible tubing.(valve tubing) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-E0rLC_WY02Q.html

I 3D printed them. A link to where you can download the model is in the video description.

90 toothpicks, it is a Truncated Icosahedron (Buckyball) so from Wikipedia "It has 12 regular pentagonal faces, 20 regular hexagonal faces, 60 vertices and 90 edges."

@@ScorchWorks thank u soo much

They don't really have a name (I refer to them as nodes) they are my design and are 3D printed. You can download the 3D model for 3D printing from Thingiverse. There is a link to the Thingiverse page in the description of this video.

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Thanks...

But i will do it with matches

All the information is in the video description. They are 3D printed parts. The design is available on Thingiverse.

Its full name is buckminsterfullerene but it often goes by buckyball or C60

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@@MariahRae4488 - amazingly enough, Carbon 60 molecules have been detected in interstellar clouds, they occur naturally. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/11/191113170322.htm

60 nodes, 90 toothpicks

Brayant Sloane - you just have to put your mouse somewhere in the screen and click to pause the video.

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