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Open Source Tensegrity
- londons_explore 3y agoWhy aren't buildings constructed this way? You could have the whole thing made in a factory which just weaves steel cable onto the ends of rods, and then pack the whole thing in a truck and on site just attach a winch to tighten the cables and your building self assembles itself.
- jacknews 3y agoThey're very springy. A tent is similar to a tensegrity structure, and still more rigid.
- Klathmon 3y agoI believe many (most?) of these structures tend to have single points of failure, and you don't want your whole building collapsing because a single line broke.
- londons_explore 3y agoBut it need not right? You could easily weave 6 strands in different paths through all the rods and do calculations to be sure that any two could fail and the building still stand. Sure you now need to tighten 6 cables with a winch rather than 1 to assemble your building, but it still seems like it would be far quicker than traditional frame construction.
- 20after4 3y agoTraditional frame construction is a highly optimized system. A skilled framing crew can put up a house in a day. And I'm talking a crew of 3 or 4 people. It's pretty hard to beat.
- euroderf 3y agoAnd then hit it with spraycrete and hey, presto!
- hairywalt 3y agoObligatory link to the Lego version: https://stickyhat.com/tensegrity-lego-moc/ https://stickyhat.com/tensegrity-lego-moc/