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Building a Buckminster Fuller blanket fort

Posted by  Kate Rinsema to Holy Kaw!

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If your troops demand better lodgings than a blanket thrown over the table, you might want to try wowing them with this ingenious blanket fort design:

[D]esigned by Patrick Di Justo, uses Buckminister Fuller’s principle of tensional integrity to create a lightweight but sturdy structure. It’s built around brooms that push each other apart, but never touch each other.

Some kids are more trusting than others; the more cautious may get scared off by the possibility of becoming tangled in twine before being knocked unconscious by a falling broom, but, hey, someone has to keep the therapists in business.

Full story at Wired via NeatoBambino.

Entertaining the kids.

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