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It's the unedited footage! If you have over an hour free, you can watch the whole thing. But most of you will skip through and watch a few random bits before moving on with your lives.

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The full unedited hexastix construction

Watch Matt build a thing! In real time! How to build a Hexastix in 72 easy steps https://youtu.be/DelH1S32dOg

Comments

Timothy Lombard

Thanks for the idea Matt. Built one last night with skewers. Didn't have enough pencils.

Thomas Gibson

"most of you will skip through and watch a few random bits before moving on with your lives". You underestimate how little I have to do on a Sunday morning

Piotr Kowalski

I've watched the whole unedited coin flipping video so this one is not going to be a problem.

Talya

Skip through? I prefer watching the entire 77 minutes. By the way, does it happen to you a lot that your wife walkes in while you are doing one of you rediculous math stuff?

Doug Jones

Very satisfying to see the work you put into the sculpture. In some ways, it reminds me of the tensegrity models I did while I was in college. I found myself speculating if you could go another layer out with more pencils, but I don't think the pencils would be long enough to support that. It took me a while to visualize how you were expanding the structure, but I was able to catch on after a bit. Thanks for sharing this!

Matt Parker

Fairly often she will come home and I'm doing some ridiculous maths thing, but I'm normally hidden away in my office or in the spare room at home. In a hotel room there is nowhere to hide!

Matt Parker

Yes, I was very tempted to get more pencils and try one more layer out, but I came to the same conclusion as you: the pencils are not long enough. I'll need to get some longer sticks and try again!

H

Could I make (just) one of the four tubes triangle-shaped? Gonna try it out tomorrow!

Timothy Lombard

The condensed video you did was such a motivation that I built my own, using meat skewers though. Thank you for the awesome content.

Matt Parker

My pleasure! Great to hear you built one.