Brighter Fusion Blog

What follows is a blog post from back in July. I didn’t publish it until now because the pictures were stuck on my camera’s CompactFlash card and it would have taken forever to offload them, so I never did.

Until now! Enjoy.

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I’ve been thinking for a long time now that it would be neat to build a coffee table out of the Zome Tool toy. I think I’ve seen ones made from similar construction toys like legos or tinker toys.

So, last weekend I tried to put together an end table. I used a lot of the shorter sticks and made a lot of reinforcements for stability, but as you can see, the main supports are all blue, which are the weakest shape (being rectangular and easier to bend than the triangular or pentagonal cross sections). I really like the looks of this one, but even with glue on the joints you couldn’t trust it to hold up a lamp.

So then I gave up on the end table and just started experimenting with stronger structures. Here’s a traditional square-bottomed pyramid:

And a neato hexagonal criss-cross structure:

After a couple hours I had to go back to being a grup, so I tore everything apart and put my toys away.

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See the Picasa gallery for more angles on the structures and my cat, The Doctor.