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Originally Posted by freebeard
Now we need to see pictures of the first attempt, as well as the Photoshop work. 
Is there any taper in plan? If the sides are basically flat, you could use 12° triangles on the sides and have four very similar pieces to nest together when they collapse. For—you know—the fourth prototype.
Bucky Fuller always said it takes 3 iterations to work out the bugs. |
So #1 was made of foam insulated building material, duct tape, folded aluminum flashing and held down with bungee cord. It was to help get a picture in my head. Might have made it to a full 25 mph before imploding. Quite funny. (No pics so far on any of these - I just don't think about it at the time and would rather just do pics of what works)
#2 was aluminum angle and channel drilled and screwed together that would only be sturdy enough with a lot of crossbracing. Carpal tunnel forced abandonment, but it was also looking ugly. On that note though I was looking a lot at how geodesic domes were constructed for inspiration.
And with my deepest regards to Dr. Fuller, I just don't got a whole lot of "try" left in me. I'm scared to death If I think too hard I'll find some minor flaw which would make me scrap the whole thing and start over. I'm considering just grabbing a beer whenever this happens to keep me distracted.