Originally Posted by The Hundred Gunner

Last night when I was urinating, I got it all over the toilet seat.

Originally Posted by Syrillian

Hi.

Here is a small blurb on building a buckyball.

It has been my experience that forming compound angles with materials such as acylic and lexan can be tedious ~ not to discourage you as it can be done.

The buckyball design may alleviate the need to use compound angles as the panels are comprised of hexagons and pentagons.

These geometric shapes are not inherent in the design of the BD's head(s), but perhaps they could be tweaked in a manner so that the final outcome becomes clear insofar as the intention.


Another possibility is following in the footsteps of the geodesic dome. Here is a little blurb on them. If you scroll down a little ways you will see some formulae that outlines some of the basics for various geometric shapes and their potentiality in constructing 3-D objects.

This may all seem over-the-top, but oftentimes obstruse information contains small nuggets of useful techniques that are transferable to a smaller and less complicated project.

I can see that you are well-prepared in the design stage as your drawings are excellent, and outlined clearly.... I only wish that I had that kind of skill...



P.S.

I did receive your PM, and I will respond this evening.

Originally Posted by DIRTYDUCK

what about using one of those hamster balls for your res and just trick it out? thats whta i think i would do...its already an acrylic ball...all you need to do is add stuff to it!

Originally Posted by DIRTYDUCK

here try this company i think they have what you need! http://www.complast.com/BALLS/index.htm

Originally Posted by Unstableiser

Have a sound box attached to it so that when you turn on your PC it says "Mr. Bubbles!"

Originally Posted by shnoops

Your idea with the eye color is really cool. IMO you should have the eyes a uv yellow or green acrylic and then put red leds on a switch so you can just do a simple hostile, friendly thing!!!

Originally Posted by Adrienspawn

Buy a metal bowl that won't cause galvanic corrosion, then drill the holes and use acryilic with like superglue to seal them off? That's what I would do, but probably only because I have no machining knowledge at all.

Originally Posted by Sekigahara

At the moment I'm sending emails to a few local companies that do custom injection molding of plastics in regards to pricing for the half-sphere. I have a feeling that it might be a bit on the expensive side, even for a single small-scale sphere, but I'll wait on their appraisals to decide how I'll go about getting one made.

Thanks for all the input, guys. In the meantime, keep an eye open for inexpensive methods to create a plastic sphere that I could use, as well as anything else that might help the process.

Originally Posted by repo_man

http://www.azpartsmaster.com/Product...e__F35103.aspx
Maybe?

Edit: AHAH!

http://www.lightpostglobes.com/12-in...ck-flange.html

http://www.1000bulbs.com/Plastic/Acr...utm_term=33058

Originally Posted by Sekigahara

Nice finds! Only thing is 12cm != 12in lol :P

EDIT: Globes with a 4 3/4" or 5" diameter could work.