The Tensegritoy:

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The Tensegritoy

The Tensegritoy is an educational kit available at various science stores.

The more complicated structure on the right has 30 rods and the manual that comes with the kit describes it as an icosahedron ( suggesting that you build it with the rods touching at the ends, five converging at each vertex, and then spreading the ends apart, yeilding a truncated icosahedron ).

( see: The Platonic Solids ) 

Tensegritoy
Design Science Toys LTD.
1362 Route 9
Tivoli, NY 12583 ( USA )
Phone: 1-800-227-2316
FAX:     914-756-4223

The basic Tensegritoy kit comes
with 30 twelve inch hardwood dowels
and it retails for about $30.

Tensegritoy is a registered trademark of 
Tensegrity Systems Corporation
Tivoli, NY 12583

I have no relationship with this company and 
am in no way associated with the product.

Links:


Fuller faq-4 Tensegrity structures and domes.
Matt Gorbet's Journal Entries for MAS123 An MIT student goes geeky on the toy.

Buy it on the web:
    Catalog: kits for building geodesic domes and tensegrity structures.
    Catalog entry: Tensegritoy

I have no relationship with these outlets, and I am not endorsing them.

A related topic: The Platonic Solids: The dodecahedron and the rest.

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