Openscad Geodesic dome by mlinuxguy

Last crawled date: 3 years ago

This is a Geodesic dome created in Openscad. I was teaching myself Openscad so it's not the greatest code. It's setup for 1/8" wooden dowels such as wooden food skewers you find at the store. The blue and red connector's are indicated in the printed object with a bump near the socket (or lack if its a red connector).
Note, I followed the 2V design from this site: http://geo-dome.co.uk/2v_tool.asp
Note: I used a 1/8th inch drill bit to manually wallow out the connector holes where necessary, there is some variation in the skewer diameters.
To make higher quality prints I did all of them upright, which meant I had to split the 5-way and 6-way connectors in half. When assembling the dome I do the bottom layer first, then move up layers, when it's finally connected I come back with a hot-glue gun and glue the halves together.
I'm using this dome for a 360 degree diversity FPV antenna holder. Some facets have a directional antenna on them, all feed down into their own RX5808 module which will find the strongest signal and select that video feed.