A 10 feet Geodesic Ball from Bamboo, raised by CCL-IITGN ft. Foundation Program 2019
Channel: CCL IITGN
Date: 2019-09-14

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We wanted to end the Foundation Program, IIT Gandhinagar with a community event and floated the idea of Raising the Ball to Himanshu Aur Karla Shekhar. They gave us the last day and we had about 100 super excited students. 720 Bamboo sticks, with 5 holes each, 1800 tie belts, 15 of us at CCL, 4 hrs and we raised the ball in front of Jasu Bhai Auditorium. 10 feet 6V Reciprocal Geodesic Ball. We hope to make 40ft next and hang this one in the academic quad of IIT Gandhinagar.

Background work of design, math, spherical trigonometry, drilling of the 720 sticks which was done at the lab over the last 3 days was critical.

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