?Lego meets Origami?" Troxes interlock to build just about anything
Troxes are geometric toys that interlock like Legos Is it modular" Connectable" Does it even vaguely resemble a tiny building" Then you can bet it?s a toy that designers and architects will fawn over. New to this category are Troxes, tri-winged bits of paper that interlock with identical brethren to create spatially complex constructions evoking the work of Buckminster Fuller.
Within a week of launching a Kickstarter campaign to bring the product to market, creator Jonathan Bobrow has crowdfunded more than double his initial goal of $10,000.
Bobrow developed Troxes as a student at the MIT Media Lab when he got an assignment to make what?s called a ?press-fit kit??essentially a self-interlocking system of objects (like Legos). He liked the structural strength and efficiency of triangles and how these interlocking pieces could combine into larger structures: Tetrahedrons, octahedrons, and icosahedrons. Soon, the assignment turned into a full-blown obsession, and now, a business. According to Bobrow, the novel spatial play promoted by his design can help rewire our brains?making it easier for us to envision the non-cubic spaces and constructs prevalent in the natural world.
Via: Kickstarter
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