Dynamic Straw Struggle | Kannada
Channel: Arvind Gupta
Date: 26/08/2016

You could assemble four bendable straws with the help of two toothpicks to make these Dynamic Struggling Straws. First make holes on both ends of all the four straws using a toothpick. Place the four straws with the colors alternating and in the orientation shown. The crimps of the red straws should be to the right and of the blue straws to the left. Now weave the left ends of all straws in one toothpick. Similarly weave the right ends of all four straws in the second toothpick. Now spread and phase out both blue straws and also the red straws to make two quadrilaterals. This is the finished model. Now hold the toothpicks in both hands and push-pull them to see a beautiful movement of the straws. The straw struggle is dynamic and intriguing. 

This work is supported by IUCAA (www.iucaa.in) and TATA Trust (http://www.tatatrusts.org/) and (www.tata.com/aboutus/sub_index/Tata-trusts)

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Credits:,Ashok Rupner, Manish Jain, Pradnya Pujari, Shivaji Mane, Jyoti Hiremath, Arvind Gupta

Dubbed in Kannada by P K Nanawaty