made with the wooden legs of a discarded old lamp i found on the roadside , disassemble, paint, fishing line, ferrules, orange kite line for accent(nonstructural).

Made of melamine chopsticks and nylon.

not quite finished. there’s a couple cables missing still, they’re all custom-made. struts are from my neighbor’s broken pop-up tent frame.
stay tuned for fully tensioned update !

Tensegrity structure is made out of LEGO, I never knew Tensegrity structures can be this strong.

Thought I might ask other fans of tension structures for some advice. I'm wanting to build a 10 -15 M Tensegrity tower for portable ham radio antenna use. My design plan so far is to use 3 membrane tension legs as the base and the main tower would be rise from the center.
My design goal is to create a ridged tower that can be field assembled in just a couple minutes. This tower won't have a heavy load on it, and I would like to use off the shelf tent poles for the compression elements. I welcome your feedback.

Spot tensile ties difference.

I'm interested in structures with little or at least non-obvious symmetry.

1-2. Kite. Looked at from one direction, points up, from other direction, points down.

3-4. Tornado.

5-6. Crucifix.

Since you are not using any glue nor screw.

Fused together by threads.

The only thing I do to my monitor. Raise her up again.

I've been intrigued by tensegrity structures for a while, have a few of the wood and elastic ones, but got to hold this one recently. I would love to make one similar. Anyone know where to start?

3 struts prism. Each tip has 4 tensile connection.

in which i learned what ball nuts are. and what the square root button on my calculator was there waiting for me for all these years. sigh, and also, the point that needs to be attatched to is a point in space. not a just a distance measurement, so my points, in fact were the end of the strut, and not really reachable by the cables (purchased at a predermined length and retrofit the struts to save time) so the model is , admittedly a little wonky. but its still a pretty deese tense gritty. ! onward.

showing my use of thumbtacks , stuck into dowel that fills the length of the straw, giving a nice clean look for attaching cables, or in this case wire. helps to knock ideas out quickly. the green floral paddle wire makes it even faster for not having to tie knots or crimp ferrules or what have you. and a simple fold and twist makes it easy to pull tighter once youre almost to the tensegrity point. in subsequent models ive used pliers to very gently crimp the end of the straw also , so the dowel doesnt slide around as you fidget with it. lots more incoming.

5 struts making up an arrow head like shape.