Nexorade and Rotegrity Tools

These parts are a set of tools for making self-reinforcing structures called rotegrities or nexorades using bamboo rods, superglue and fold back clips. You can skip printing the "flexible" parts but the other parts are the basics.

Here is a basic set of instructions, but there are more in the pdf.

"3d printed vertex jigs were used to produce rotegrities in the form of platonic solids. These include 2 node structures. My assemblies were made vertex by vertex. The procedure is

(1) Gather parts: superglue, foldback clips, 1 bamboo rod per polyhedron edge, and one forming and one gluing jig per vertex. The number of jig sides corresponds to the number of edges in a vertex, that is tetrahedron, cube, dodecahedron, 3- sided-hosohedron: 3 sided jig, octahedron, 4-sided-hosohedron: 4 sided jig, icosahedron, 5-sided-hosohedron: 5 sided jig.

(2) If required, bamboo rods can be soaked in water until they no longer float, this softens them and helps them bend rather than snap. Alter