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Roger's Connection
ON-LINE INSTRUCTION MANUAL

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• Quick Start - To get started right away!
• IMPORTANT Safety Note for Parents.
• Magnetic Safety Notice (protect those computer disks!)
• An important Roger's Connection Secret - North and South.
• Combining two or more tubes for greater length.
• The five most basic shapes - the Platonic Solids.
• Why are triangles stable, and squares unstable? - building strong designs.
• Building the Tetrahedron
• Building the Octahedron
• Building the Icosahedron
• Using Low Friction Magnetic Bearings to build designs that have motion! These designs have spinning structures supported within larger stable structures. Slowed primarily by air friction, once started, the spinning motion can continue for many minutes.

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Future Sections Under Development

Other designs that can be made with 30 magnetic tubes or less:

• Two Frequency Tetrahedron
• Octet Truss - for bridges and space stations
• Octahedron Mast
• Others

Some designs that can be made with 60 magnetic tubes:

• Three Frequency Tetrahedron
• Two frequency Octahedron
• Stellated Icosahedron
• The Amazing Vector Equilibrium (Cuboctahedron)
• Stellated Octahedron (Star Tetrahedron)

Some designs that can be made with 90 magnetic tubes or less:

• Stellated Octahedron
• Others

Designs that require more than 90 magnetic tubes:

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Advanced Spinning Designs. These are larger more complicated structures that contain smaller spinning structures within them. Some designs have two magnetic bearings (one above and one below) for maximum stability and speed.

Multi-Player Games, Collaborative Learning, and Contests using Roger's Connection.

Gallery of Designs, both simple and complicated, static and moving!

Scientific and Theoretical Information.

• Geometry - More Fun Than You remember!
• Buckminster Fuller, Inventor of the Geodesic Dome.
• Design Science & Synergetics
• The Vector Equilibrium and the Structure of the Atomic Nucleus
• Crystal Structures
• Others

Lesson Plans for Teachers, and Larger Classroom Demonstration Units.

Additional Support for Educators.

Glossary of Technical Terms.

Bibliography, for additional information.

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