Lego geodesic dome

Posted by David Pescovitz, January 15, 2008 11:49 AM | permalink

Jon Palmer built this fantastic geodesic demo from Lego and posted a HOWTO on his site. It reminds me of something out of Gerard K. O'Neill's The High Frontier!
Link (Thanks, Paul Hartzog!)

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#1 posted by Cpt. Tim , January 15, 2008 11:55 AM

awesome. I was just (like 20 minutes ago) reading about the United States pavilion at Expo 67 and thinking. "Geodesic domes are awesome. I wish i could build one."

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#2 posted by Maneki Nico , January 15, 2008 1:08 PM

Reminds me of Springfield under glass, only less glassy and more geodesic...

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#3 posted by romulusnr

, January 15, 2008 1:21 PM

Makes me think of Silent Running.

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#4 posted by EnderQON , January 15, 2008 1:39 PM

makes me hate WebSense even more - site blocked as a "malicious web site"

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#5 posted by proto , January 15, 2008 2:23 PM

Yup, definitely reminiscent of the forest domes on the spaceships in Silent Running.

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#6 posted by proto , January 15, 2008 2:24 PM

All it needs are little Lego Huey, Dewey and Louie drones.

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#7 posted by Takuan , January 15, 2008 2:37 PM

yep,almost expected Bruce Dern to emerge

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#8 posted by Teresa Nielsen Hayden / Moderator

, January 15, 2008 4:44 PM

They're cool, but they leak.

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#9 posted by Foolster41

, January 15, 2008 7:48 PM

Cool. I think there's a typo. In the article you say "demo" when I think you meant "dome".

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#10 posted by jonpalmer , January 15, 2008 8:40 PM

Hello! Thanks to Paul and David for sharing this. Domes like the one at Expo 67 were a big inspiration for this. That super optimistic-futuristic style is amazing to me.

The original interior was supposed to look like this sort of super-deformed videogame landscape, like Zelda or a Peter Molyneux game.

And I do love Silent Running! Here are some great models from the movie by one of my favorite builders:

Drones and Bruce by Ken Takeuchi

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#11 posted by relaxedguy , January 16, 2008 7:12 AM

My mom worked for Gerry O'Neil at the Space Studies Institute at Princeton University around 1980. I would visit at work and see the machine shop guys building the mass driver and all sorts of cool space tech. Maxi Anderson, the famous balloonist was there one day, and one of the main guys who created postscript used to hang out at our house and eat "special" brownies and sit up in a tree. No wonder I like BB.

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#12 posted by panbean , January 30, 2008 10:36 AM

This is really cool. If you're interested in building one of these for real check out www.domeguys.com