For years I have occasionally tinkered with the idea of adding a "buckyball" to the array of LEGO models of molecules that I have been involved in developing. I felt it would make a nice complement to the diamond structure https://pobox.bradley.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://mrsec.wisc.edu/Edetc/LEGO/PDFfiles/UCinstruct/diamondwhole.PDF and graphite structure http://mrsec.wisc.edu/Edetc/LEGO/PDFfiles/UCinstruct/graphite_whole.PDF. Others have built the structure using very unorthodox LEGO pieces, but I was going for basic blocks. This I have viewed, if nothing else, as a good challenge. (It’s kind of like the game “Jenga” with LEGO bricks.) A couple nights ago I got to thinking about it again and hit upon a new approach. The result is not a perfect sphere and it’s not the strongest structure (especially when the support rods are removed), but it does feature the appropriate number and pattern of hexagons and pentagons.
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