May 9, 2022
Description
This ball was inspired by the scientific buckyball. The Buckyball has a very appealing structure so I decided to create an artistic representation of that. However, it is not an attempt to replicate the actual Buckyball structure. It actually has little resemblance to that structure in the end but the name stuck.
It exhibits interesting rolling properties if it is on a flat plane that is slightly unlevel.
I have uploaded the STL (zip format), the gcode file, Makerbot Thing file and Simplify 3D file.
Check out other rollerball designs:
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4797813
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4794809
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4818123
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4819999
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4825156
Ball Gluing
After printing two of these models you can use clear epoxy to glue them together. At first I thought a clamp would be the way to align the halves but after experimentation, I found it best just to manually align the shapes and then let it setup - no clamp necessary; the clamp seemed to skew the alignment because of the slick surface of the faces.
License:
Creative Commons — Attribution — Noncommercial
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