How do you make shapes with buckyballs?

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How do you make shapes with buckyballs?

Buckyballs Pyramid

  1. use your buckyballs to form a single strand of balls.
  2. Break off nine magnetic balls, and attach the two ends to form a ring.
  3. Transform the ring into a triangle.
  4. Repeat Steps 2 through 3 until you have 16 triangles total.
  5. Select four triangles, and snap them together to form a larger triangle.

How do you make a Zen Magnet ball?

Step-by-step instructions

  1. Shape 6 spheres into a circle.
  2. Grasp the circle in two places and squeeze to create a triangle.
  3. Put together 20 of these triangles.
  4. Combine 10 of these triangles as depicted and repeat with the remaining triangles.
  5. Connect the two formations.
  6. Carefully shape everything into a ball (see video).

What do you do with magnetic balls?

Magnet balls are intended to be used as recreational and stress reliving toys for adults. They have been manufactured and sold under many names including “Buckyballs” and “Zen Magnets”. Magnet balls fall into a similar toy grouping as products like fidget spinners and stress balls.

How do you make a Spek ball?

the speks hex sphere step-by-step:

  1. begin by creating an 18 spek hex. repeat until you have 20 hexes.
  2. QUICK TIP.
  3. slowly and carefully begin connecting your hex sheets flat like they are above…
  4. start closing your sphere by connecting each group of five at the highlighted speks.
  5. the end.

How do you make buckyballs?

  1. Un-pack the parts and separate the straws.
  2. Connect 5 black atoms with five red straws to make a pentagon.
  3. Put one pentagon in the middle and use 5 white straws to join the 5 other pentagons onto it in a star or snowflake shape.
  4. Use 5 more white straws to join the outer circle of pentagons together.

What are the little magnetic balls called?

If you’re not familiar with Buckyballs, also known as Zen Magnets and Neoballs, they’re small balls made of neodymium magnets. They’re popular as desk toys because they can be stacked and arranged into all kinds of different shapes. That is, until 2012, when the Consumer Product Safety Commission banned them.

How do you make things out of Speks?

the speks star step-by-step: wrap your chain around the ring and continue until each of the sides is 3 speks long, add a spek to the center. repeat once to make 2 pentagons. create a new chain and make a ring of 6 speks. wrap your chain around the ring and continue until each of the sides is 4 speks long.

How do you make a ball out of specks?

the speks triangle sphere step-by-step:

  1. create a ring of 9 speks.
  2. pinch a corner with your thumb and forefinger. poke in the other side.
  3. slowly and carefully begin connecting the triangles like so…
  4. start closing your sphere along the edges of the triangles shown here. It will snap into place.
  5. the end. ta-da!