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20
Mar 10

Magnetic levitation and ferrofluid

I made this video to demonstrate how you can levitate something using diamagnetism. The video is pretty self explanatory but leaves out some details... Continue reading →

Geometry / Magnets / maths — View Comments
21
Sep 09

Magnetic balls: reloaded

A few more exciting shapes made from magnetic balls. Here's the original post. And here's the full coverage.

This is a dodecahedron - 12 faces and 20 vertices (the faces a dimpled, that's not part of a standard dodecahedron):

Magnetic balls: reloaded

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16
Sep 09

Magnetic balls: the beginning

I bought these magnetic balls off eBay and I've made loads of cool stuff with them.

Trouble is, after I've made one cool thing I have to destroy it before I can make another cool thing. So this blog will also serve as a photographic record of my achievements.

Let's get started then. These are the balls in an unordered state:

Magnetic balls: the beginning

And here they are as a Möbius Strip:

Magnetic balls: the beginning

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