www.BioCharisma.com This video shows the initial geometry of the first ten PVC struts used to form a 2.5meter diameter Star Dome. Two people can pop this up in no time at all.
Great job I am new here maybe you guys can help me can anyone advice how do I determine the length of my material if I wanted say a 15 to 20 feet diameter also how do I determine the length of the material I need for good head room is there a formula also how do I lay out the pattern I love the design and I want to do this but as I said I am new thanks for sharing
Thank you for your video. I enjoyed it very much. How strong is this structure? Would it deform in high wind? Could you suspend yourself from it? Do pull ups? Hang a hammock? How long was "no time at all?"
Good questions all... I built one of these from my own design I didn't know it was a star dome per se. I came up with it after staring at the soccer ball for about six hours and writing notes on it till 4:00 in the morning I nervous 4:00 in the morning cuz I was sitting in the bathroom and I got numb anyway I wrote on the ball notes letters and numbers I hope I find it someday different colors red blue maybe green I don't know with sharpies. What I saw from the soccer ball is it various lines don't have to be short pieces that could be one piece single pieces. So I bought some drip tubing and I built one a model of it and I've got it right here with me it's been hanging around just been thrown out here and there and moved about 30 40 times since I've been homeless since then and I had butt gray PVC electro conduit PVC which is I think the best thing for it because it's impervious to UV don't have to paint it or worry about it getting brittle and cracking the white stuff you will. At least most of it. So now to your questions and I'll address those in a separate comment because that'll get too long for this one.
One. How strong is the structure? Answer is not very strong it's just half inch PVC it looks like and that's very just get a 10-ft cigarette and see what you think of it I mean build a model build a drip tube model and build one that text tubing you know start small learn then get bigger. Two. Will it deform in high wind? if it didn't have any fabric on it maybe not it still would be form I think this would lay over just with sunlight on it cuz it'll get warm up and just lay over with the least bit of wind no it will not send it to high wind not with fabric on it absolutely not no way... The biggest problem with tents High tunnels greenhouses and whatnot is wind sunlight in the southwest or in the West and then also ice and snow how much ice and snow can I take cuz the ice will stick to it it will freeze in the snow sticks of the ice. Not too far from me here in Missouri there's an ice storm and then snow storm in 2 weeks after it happened a guy who sitting a table with his family and their garage left they hurt a big clump on it crushed the cars in the garage. Other friends same storm had a commercial greenhouse with big 3-in thick steel ribs collapse and snapped the ribs in half invert the whole roof...I I'm not going to the long details but I've seen four times tents destroyed by high winds. Three. Can you suspend yourself in it? Absolutely not?. End of story. Four. Can you hang a hammock in it? Nope that's just added weight to your body it wouldn't hurt anybody's body not even a 20 lb maybe a baby swing that's about it. Considering that we haven't seen anything yet and we will probably went straight line winds and microburst and weird things like that and odd weather with the grand solar minimum polar vortexes and weird things keep happening new things keep being thrown at us... I'm looking at the very very best tents In the world. I'm going to finish the design on the one that I invented back about 8 years ago and bring it to market in one way or another simply because it is now an absolute necessity it will keep people alive! I also have a teepee design I want to finish up it's just in my head but everything got designed in my head has worked and I got to finish that too cuz it'll be the same thing it'll keep it alive have an open fire in it and what month stay warm through the coldest winter. Five. Can you do pull-ups in it? I think you already see the answer in that one absolutely not! What I would say is just buy some material and try it out yourself do a small one do a 5'1 and see if you can hang anywhere from it then do a 8 ft or 10 ft you don't have money to do all that experimentation just make some kind of model should get the experience building it I mean you can build something you can always use later a storage shed for your mower I'll check in tractor a tent for a campout the children to camp out in or something make an 8 ft one then get bit it's that come out and do a 12-ft and if you like it if you're still working for you then do a bigger one later but make something you can use make it so you can take it apart really easily that's what I'm going to do with mine I want to make it they pull out and pick up set it up in half an hour and be done and have a basically stormproof ice proof and bomb proof basically. I survived a near Miss by a tornado where a lot of people never saw their tents again and I was closer to the tornado then their tents were and I hadn't even I did not even have a stake down closer to the tornado I had two the two South corners take down but not the north corners and that's where the tornado came from the north so I arched my back I grabbed this pole through the fabric and Arch my back and Capt on the ground with my body weight and I didn't go up with it could have been killed by a state going to get them snapping on half and going through you. fiberglass stakes are very dangerous oh so long they were they were aluminum stakes thank God!!!
One. How strong is the structure? Answer is not very strong it's just half inch PVC it looks like and that's very flimsy. You can see that in the video. I suggest that you get a 10-ft stick and see what you think of it. I mean build a model. You should build a 1/4" drip tube model and then build one from 1/2" tubing, PVC or PEX. You know, start small, learn then get bigger. Two. Will it deform in high wind? If it didn't have any fabric on it maybe not it still would deform I think this would lay over just with sunlight on it cuz it'll get warm up and just lay over with the least bit of wind no it will not stand it to high wind; not with fabric on it absolutely not no way... Three. Can you suspend yourself in it? Absolutely not?. End of story. Four. Can you do pull-ups in it? I think you already see the answer in that one absolutely not! Five. Can you hang a hammock in it? Nope that's just added weight to your body it wouldn't hold anybody's body not even a 20 lb...Weeeell...maybe a baby in a swing that's about it. The three biggest problems with tents, High tunnels greenhouses, and whatnot is High Wind, Sunlight or UV Degradation in the southwest or at high altitude anywhere in the West (or world) and then also ice and snow! One. HIGH WINDS I'm not going to the long details but I've seen four times tents destroyed by high winds. Ehh what the heck! My gaffer always said "In for a penny in for a pound!" The first high wind tent story goes back to when I was a kid; my cousins were out on a big lake in Nebraska on their sail boat, and their son was sleeping a toddler was sleeping in a dome tent and a high wind hit it and it rolled it out into the lake and it was sinking and they saw it and they were able to get to it with the boat and fish him out. Talk about a rude awakening hey? The second incident was up in the mountains. I was with my youngest brother and we were going for a hike; we set up a little Dome Tent really good one aluminum arrows, er poles. We threw our stove, Lantern, sleeping bags, etc -all of our gear in there backpacks and decided it was plenty heavy so we went for a hike we came back and the tent was not there!! It had rolled like a ball with everything in it several hundred yards away (or picked up and dragged, take it back I could have been a small tornado a little dust Devil type thing could have picked it up spending around and set it down just like Dorothy's house in Kansas...whatever we didn't see it happen!!! Another time I was camped out helping at a D-Day reenactment paintball war huge thing in Oklahoma. this lady told me to ask me to move my tent and I didn't do it cuz I'd like to where it was and she dragged it with all my I had a lot of stuff and I made it was heavy she grabbed it by the corners and dragged a thing so it was very well built. And I found THAT out the next night or maybe that same night I don't know I was in the tent and there was a tornado nearby... I survived a near Miss by a tornado where a lot of people never saw their tents again and I was closer to the tornado than their tents were and I did not even have it staked down closest to the tornado. I had two the two South corners staked down, but not the north corners, and that's where the tornado came from the north so I arched my back I grabbed both Corner poles through the fabric and Arched my back and kept it on the ground with my body weight so I didn't go up with it. I could have been killed by a stake snapping in half and going through me. Fiberglass stakes are very dangerous when shattered. oh, I just remembered.. They were aluminum stakes thank God!! Actually they still can snap, and I just learned today that the first true GEODESIC DOME tents were built using aluminum shafts made by the Eastern Arrow company but they sometimes don't just bend they can snap right in half also and then you bleed out REALLY fast the blood going through the arrow where fiberglass would just shatter and you'd have multiple lacerations but it wouldn't go through you no way, but it would hurt like hell... The incident in the Rockies, ie the hike with my little brother, The lady dragging it, and the tornado, were so the same tent! It is a geodesic design by North Face based on our Buckminster photos geodesic dome technology the poles didn't snap they didn't break they didn't bend one of them bent a little bit but it wasn't bad we still have used it several times since then. Last story. You think I would have learned with all those life lessons but I didn't I set up a tent here for a guy to stay in and it was the polls were too light it was fiberglass poles they're still laying out there and it got hit by high wind and it just shattered the poles bunch of two or three of the poles I think three of them tore the tent up so it was worthless I burned it. How much ice and snow can It take is critical, cuz the ice will stick to it it will freeze and then the snow sticks and to the ice. Right here in Missouri there was an ice storm yesterday back and that was followed a day later by a heavy snow storm. 2 weeks after it happened a friend's Family was sitting at dinner table, and they heard a big karrumph! It caved in the garage and crushed the cars in the garage. Other friends same storm had a commercial greenhouse with big 3-in thick steel ribs collapse and the weight snapped the ribs in half inverted the whole roof... Considering that we haven't seen ANYTHING yet and we will probably - 200-300 mph straight line winds and microbursts that knock big trees over, and bizarre things like that and other odd weather phenomena, with the grand solar minimum, like "Polar Vortexes" and weird things keep happening new things keep being thrown at us... I'm looking at the fact that we need the VERY VERY best tents In the world!!! I'm going to finish the design on the PVC dome that I invented back about 8 years ago and bring it to market in one way or another simply because it is now an Absolute Necessity! it will keep people alive! I also have a teepee design I want to finish up it's just in my head but everything that I've ever designed in my head has worked and I got to finish that too cuz it'll be the same thing; it'll keep it alive bc you can have a stove AND an open fire in it and stay warm through the coldest winter!!! What I would say is just buy some material and try it out yourself do a small one do a 5 FOOT one, and see if you can hang anything from it then do a 8 ft or 10 ft you don't have money to do all that experimentation just make some kind of model: 1/4" Drip Tubing, etc. You should get the experience building it I mean you can build something you can always use later a storage shed for your mower... A chicken tractor, a tent for a campout, for the children to camp out in, a little greenhouse... Etc. Make an 8 ft one then get bigger. If that comes out then do a 12-ft and if you like it if you're still working for you then do a bigger one later but make something you can use make it so you can take it apart really easily that's what I'm going to do with mine I want to make it they pull out and pick up set it up in half an hour and be done and have a basically; High Wind Proof, Stormproof ICE Proof and Bomb Proof basically. One last point and reason for doing this: 1. You get valuable experience building a small one and you build something you can use for something else. 2. You make a $500 mistake instead of a $5,000 mistake. that is one of the basic rules of alternative housing of any kind and you're basically looking at a house here so follow that rule and it will serve you well if you listen to me. from the case of PVC and building these things it's a "You can make a 50-dollar mistake instead of a $500 mistake same principle. Follow It.
Donna you can get 3/4" PVC pipe at homedepot for $1.30 for 10ft. When you make your dome 4 ft wide it would be 6ft high. 6ft wide it would be 4ft high. The 10ft doesn't change length when bent. You use 15 equal pieces plus the bottom ring. You can tape, tie or bolt the tubes at the joints. Hope this helps some. ✌
@@jaxon8579 White PVC is not UV resistant so if he is gray conduit for electrical running it is UV resistant and it will last forever basically much stronger too
In the video comments section they say it is a 2.5m dome but when watching it looks bigger than that to me. But to work out the diameter, note that the guy stood on the coffee table to hold the top of the dome. I'd guess its an 8ft dome, therefore as stated in the comments, 2.5m diameter. Also most conduit comes in 4.5m lengths and due to absence of offcuts on the lawn, I'd say they used full lengths. Joining conduit is pretty hard to do and keep its integrity so you would be restricted to this small sized dome if using conduit in this method. So if you purchased the right number of lengths of conduit and didn't shorten them, then your dome will turn out this size.
once again, living proof that ANY structure is far-better built with a...good-looking brunette woman to help!!! THE secret to EVERY great endeavor's accomplishment throughout the centuries!! :-)))
nicely done
Hi what size pic did u guys use? I love this design
Cool!! What PVC did you use?
Do you think I can use the 20 ft and make it bigger?
Thanks
awesome
Great job I am new here maybe you guys can help me can anyone advice how do I determine the length of my material if I wanted say a 15 to 20 feet diameter also how do I determine the length of the material I need for good head room is there a formula also how do I lay out the pattern I love the design and I want to do this but as I said I am new thanks for sharing
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Cool!
I like it. How do I get the instructions?
Thank you for your video. I enjoyed it very much.
How strong is this structure?
Would it deform in high wind?
Could you suspend yourself from it?
Do pull ups?
Hang a hammock?
How long was "no time at all?"
Good questions all... I built one of these from my own design I didn't know it was a star dome per se. I came up with it after staring at the soccer ball for about six hours and writing notes on it till 4:00 in the morning I nervous 4:00 in the morning cuz I was sitting in the bathroom and I got numb anyway I wrote on the ball notes letters and numbers I hope I find it someday different colors red blue maybe green I don't know with sharpies. What I saw from the soccer ball is it various lines don't have to be short pieces that could be one piece single pieces. So I bought some drip tubing and I built one a model of it and I've got it right here with me it's been hanging around just been thrown out here and there and moved about 30 40 times since I've been homeless since then and I had butt gray PVC electro conduit PVC which is I think the best thing for it because it's impervious to UV don't have to paint it or worry about it getting brittle and cracking the white stuff you will. At least most of it. So now to your questions and I'll address those in a separate comment because that'll get too long for this one.
One. How strong is the structure? Answer is not very strong it's just half inch PVC it looks like and that's very just get a 10-ft cigarette and see what you think of it I mean build a model build a drip tube model and build one that text tubing you know start small learn then get bigger.
Two. Will it deform in high wind? if it didn't have any fabric on it maybe not it still would be form I think this would lay over just with sunlight on it cuz it'll get warm up and just lay over with the least bit of wind no it will not send it to high wind not with fabric on it absolutely not no way...
The biggest problem with tents High tunnels greenhouses and whatnot is wind sunlight in the southwest or in the West and then also ice and snow how much ice and snow can I take cuz the ice will stick to it it will freeze in the snow sticks of the ice. Not too far from me here in Missouri there's an ice storm and then snow storm in 2 weeks after it happened a guy who sitting a table with his family and their garage left they hurt a big clump on it crushed the cars in the garage. Other friends same storm had a commercial greenhouse with big 3-in thick steel ribs collapse and snapped the ribs in half invert the whole roof...I I'm not going to the long details but I've seen four times tents destroyed by high winds.
Three. Can you suspend yourself in it? Absolutely not?. End of story.
Four. Can you hang a hammock in it? Nope that's just added weight to your body it wouldn't hurt anybody's body not even a 20 lb maybe a baby swing that's about it.
Considering that we haven't seen anything yet and we will probably went straight line winds and microburst and weird things like that and odd weather with the grand solar minimum polar vortexes and weird things keep happening new things keep being thrown at us... I'm looking at the very very best tents In the world.
I'm going to finish the design on the one that I invented back about 8 years ago and bring it to market in one way or another simply because it is now an absolute necessity it will keep people alive!
I also have a teepee design I want to finish up it's just in my head but everything got designed in my head has worked and I got to finish that too cuz it'll be the same thing it'll keep it alive have an open fire in it and what month stay warm through the coldest winter.
Five. Can you do pull-ups in it? I think you already see the answer in that one absolutely not!
What I would say is just buy some material and try it out yourself do a small one do a 5'1 and see if you can hang anywhere from it then do a 8 ft or 10 ft you don't have money to do all that experimentation just make some kind of model should get the experience building it I mean you can build something you can always use later a storage shed for your mower I'll check in tractor a tent for a campout the children to camp out in or something make an 8 ft one then get bit it's that come out and do a 12-ft and if you like it if you're still working for you then do a bigger one later but make something you can use make it so you can take it apart really easily that's what I'm going to do with mine I want to make it they pull out and pick up set it up in half an hour and be done and have a basically stormproof ice proof and bomb proof basically.
I survived a near Miss by a tornado where a lot of people never saw their tents again and I was closer to the tornado then their tents were and I hadn't even I did not even have a stake down closer to the tornado I had two the two South corners take down but not the north corners and that's where the tornado came from the north so I arched my back I grabbed this pole through the fabric and Arch my back and Capt on the ground with my body weight and I didn't go up with it could have been killed by a state going to get them snapping on half and going through you. fiberglass stakes are very dangerous oh so long they were they were aluminum stakes thank God!!!
One. How strong is the structure? Answer is not very strong it's just half inch PVC it looks like and that's very flimsy. You can see that in the video.
I suggest that you get a 10-ft stick and see what you think of it.
I mean build a model.
You should build a 1/4" drip tube model and then build one from 1/2" tubing, PVC or PEX. You know, start small, learn then get bigger.
Two. Will it deform in high wind? If it didn't have any fabric on it maybe not it still would deform I think this would lay over just with sunlight on it cuz it'll get warm up and just lay over with the least bit of wind no it will not stand it to high wind; not with fabric on it absolutely not no way...
Three. Can you suspend yourself in it? Absolutely not?. End of story.
Four. Can you do pull-ups in it? I think you already see the answer in that one absolutely not!
Five. Can you hang a hammock in it? Nope that's just added weight to your body it wouldn't hold anybody's body not even a 20 lb...Weeeell...maybe a baby in a swing that's about it.
The three biggest problems with tents, High tunnels greenhouses, and whatnot is High Wind, Sunlight or UV Degradation in the southwest or at high altitude anywhere in the West (or world)
and then also ice and snow!
One. HIGH WINDS
I'm not going to the long details but I've seen four times tents destroyed by high winds.
Ehh what the heck!
My gaffer always said
"In for a penny in for a pound!"
The first high wind tent story goes back to when I was a kid;
my cousins were out on a big lake in Nebraska on their sail boat, and their son was sleeping a toddler was sleeping in a dome tent and a high wind hit it and it rolled it out into the lake and it was sinking and they saw it and they were able to get to it with the boat and fish him out.
Talk about a rude awakening hey?
The second incident was up in the mountains. I was with my youngest brother and we were going for a hike; we set up a little Dome Tent really good one aluminum arrows, er poles.
We threw our stove, Lantern, sleeping bags, etc -all of our gear in there backpacks and decided it was plenty heavy so we went for a hike we came back and the tent was not there!!
It had rolled like a ball with everything in it several hundred yards away (or picked up and dragged, take it back I could have been a small tornado a little dust Devil type thing could have picked it up spending around and set it down just like Dorothy's house in Kansas...whatever we didn't see it happen!!!
Another time I was camped out helping at a D-Day reenactment paintball war huge thing in Oklahoma. this lady told me to ask me to move my tent and I didn't do it cuz I'd like to where it was and she dragged it with all my I had a lot of stuff and I made it was heavy she grabbed it by the corners and dragged a thing so it was very well built.
And I found THAT out the next night or maybe that same night I don't know I was in the tent and there was a tornado nearby...
I survived a near Miss by a tornado where a lot of people never saw their tents again and I was closer to the tornado than their tents were and I did not even have it staked down closest to the tornado. I had two the two South corners staked down, but not the north corners, and that's where the tornado came from the north so I arched my back I grabbed both Corner poles through the fabric and Arched my back and kept it on the ground with my body weight so I didn't go up with it. I could have been killed by a stake snapping in half and going through me. Fiberglass stakes are very dangerous when shattered.
oh, I just remembered..
They were aluminum stakes thank God!! Actually they still can snap, and I just learned today that the first true GEODESIC DOME tents were built using aluminum shafts made by the Eastern Arrow company but they sometimes don't just bend they can snap right in half also and then you bleed out REALLY fast the blood going through the arrow where fiberglass would just shatter and you'd have multiple lacerations but it wouldn't go through you no way, but it would hurt like hell...
The incident in the Rockies, ie the hike with my little brother,
The lady dragging it, and the tornado, were so the same tent!
It is a geodesic design by North Face based on our Buckminster photos geodesic dome technology the poles didn't snap they didn't break they didn't bend one of them bent a little bit but it wasn't bad we still have used it several times since then.
Last story. You think I would have learned with all those life lessons but I didn't I set up a tent here for a guy to stay in and it was the polls were too light it was fiberglass poles they're still laying out there and it got hit by high wind and it just shattered the poles bunch of two or three of the poles I think three of them tore the tent up so it was worthless I burned it.
How much ice and snow can It take is critical, cuz the ice will stick to it it will freeze and then the snow sticks and to the ice.
Right here in Missouri there was an ice storm yesterday back and that was followed a day later by a heavy snow storm.
2 weeks after it happened a friend's Family was sitting at dinner table, and they heard a big karrumph!
It caved in the garage and crushed the cars in the garage.
Other friends same storm had a commercial greenhouse with big 3-in thick steel ribs collapse and the weight snapped the ribs in half inverted the whole roof...
Considering that we haven't seen ANYTHING yet and we will probably - 200-300 mph straight line winds and microbursts that knock big trees over, and bizarre things like that and other odd weather phenomena, with the grand solar minimum, like "Polar Vortexes" and weird things keep happening new things keep being thrown at us... I'm looking at the fact that we need the VERY VERY best tents In the world!!!
I'm going to finish the design on the PVC dome that I invented back about 8 years ago and bring it to market in one way or another simply because it is now an Absolute Necessity! it will keep people alive!
I also have a teepee design I want to finish up it's just in my head but everything that I've ever designed in my head has worked and I got to finish that too cuz it'll be the same thing; it'll keep it alive bc you can have a stove AND an open fire in it and stay warm through the coldest winter!!!
What I would say is just buy some material and try it out yourself do a small one do a 5 FOOT one, and see if you can hang anything from it then do a 8 ft or 10 ft you don't have money to do all that experimentation just make some kind of model: 1/4" Drip Tubing, etc.
You should get the experience building it I mean you can build something you can always use later a storage shed for your mower... A chicken tractor, a tent for a campout, for the children to camp out in, a little greenhouse... Etc.
Make an 8 ft one then get bigger. If that comes out then do a 12-ft and if you like it if you're still working for you then do a bigger one later but make something you can use make it so you can take it apart really easily that's what I'm going to do with mine I want to make it they pull out and pick up set it up in half an hour and be done and have a basically;
High Wind Proof, Stormproof ICE Proof and Bomb Proof basically.
One last point and reason for doing this:
1. You get valuable experience building a small one and you build something you can use for something else.
2. You make a $500 mistake instead of a $5,000 mistake.
that is one of the basic rules of alternative housing of any kind and you're basically looking at a house here so follow that rule and it will serve you well if you listen to me.
from the case of PVC and building these things it's a
"You can make a 50-dollar mistake instead of a $500 mistake same principle.
Follow It.
What is
how did you make the circle? thanks
Hi, I loved it! Would you mind telling how long are the tubes to create the star shape on the 2.5mts diameter, please?
half of 2.5 meters
nice👍👍👍👍
Wonder if they managed to summon Satan in the end, didn't dare watch.
You could do the same thing with basalt reinforment.
Wow! Perfect!
20 foot long sticks?
what materials did you use? like specific.
Donna you can get 3/4" PVC pipe at homedepot for $1.30 for 10ft. When you make your dome 4 ft wide it would be 6ft high. 6ft wide it would be 4ft high. The 10ft doesn't change length when bent. You use 15 equal pieces plus the bottom ring. You can tape, tie or bolt the tubes at the joints. Hope this helps some. ✌
@@jaxon8579
White PVC is not UV resistant so if he is gray conduit for electrical running it is UV resistant and it will last forever basically much stronger too
put a tarp and u have a home thank u so much for this
EXACTLY AND THESE TYPES OF THINGS ARE GOING TO PROVIDE SHELTER AND KEEP A LOT OF PEOPLE ALIVE IN THE COMING YEARS
Oh Jeezus I had to comment to make it 34! Illuminate confirmed ✅
Like to see a plan and fixings
Holee Chiuaua
nice. would like step by step with audio explanations.
vad vol yes
Is this 2.5 meter diameter? If spherical, that would mean only 1.25 m (4.2 ft) radius (height at the center).
In the video comments section they say it is a 2.5m dome but when watching it looks bigger than that to me.
But to work out the diameter, note that the guy stood on the coffee table to hold the top of the dome.
I'd guess its an 8ft dome, therefore as stated in the comments, 2.5m diameter.
Also most conduit comes in 4.5m lengths and due to absence of offcuts on the lawn, I'd say they used full lengths.
Joining conduit is pretty hard to do and keep its integrity so you would be restricted to this small sized dome if using conduit in this method.
So if you purchased the right number of lengths of conduit and didn't shorten them, then your dome will turn out this size.
How are you connecting the pipes? Zero info.
I tied these together with Japanese square knots
once again, living proof that ANY structure is far-better built with a...good-looking brunette woman to help!!! THE secret to EVERY great endeavor's accomplishment throughout the centuries!! :-)))
I am impressed with the dome structure and even more impressed with the lady helper.
I'd like to comment on your gals yoga pants.... wahoo!