A fairly easy modular by Dennis Walker. Enneagonal since it has 9 angles, but it’s actually a nonagon which stands for 9 sides. I used thicker paper and let a hole in the middle of the box, but I guess it doesn’t have to be water proof. You can also make a lid for it, everything is documented here, search for “enneagonal box”. Video after the break.
This Froebel star by Froebel Friedrich (1782-1852) is made from 4 strips of paper - it is also known as German star, Swedish star, Polish star, Danish star, Pennsylvanian star and advent star, Moravian Star. While tucking the strips it’s helps to cut the ends so that they would fit more easily. I used an A4 format paper and made 1cm wide strips, but I still had to cut off the ends in the end, so I guess you could made wider strips with the same format. On the website where I discovered it there are some interesting ideas like how to make a basket out of these.
Diagrams here and video after the break.
A shuriken like modular star by Robert Neale. It’s also called octagon star or Pinwheel-Ring-Pinwheel. It’s easy to make and once all the modules are assembled they slide in place. It can be either a ring or a pointy throwing star (that’s why the Pinwheel-Ring-Pinwheel name), unfortunately it doesn’t change shape on the fly. Made with 8 square papers, I used 10cm square papers, but for its function it might be better to use smaller squares. Enjoy and play safely.
Diagrams here and video after the break.
An action model made from 8 Tung Ken Lam’s jitterbug modules. It’s easy and takes no time to make, you can also make 20 modules for a Icosidodecahedron. It can be collapsed in a diamond, but doesn’t look very nice due to the angles of the joints that prevent a nice full collapsing. I used 10cm square paper for the modules.
Diagrams here and the video after the break.
A modular origami which lets you make a cube, an octahedron, an icosahedron and so on, made by Stephan T. Lavavej. The module used is a variant of the sonobe module, it’s really easy to make, but the icosahedron is a bit tricky to assemble. I used 10cm square paper and it’s quite sturdy.
Diagrams here and the video and a few images after the break.
Following David’s request here’s the hexaflexagon action model, made by Paul Jackson. It has to be cut out because it’s made from triangles. I used an A4 paper, divided it in 7 strips of 4cm and made the base of the triangles also 4cm, equilateral triangles might work better. You can also print out the diagrams. I had to glue it together, since it’s moving it tends to come apart.
Video after the break.
The sprinkler origami is not a very spectacular modular compared to some others on this site, but it definitely suits the beginners. Made by Paula Versnick. The modules only need 8 creases and the assembly is really straight forward. You can do as many modules as you want and assemble them differently, the video shows how to fold a module, how to connect it to another one and some examples. The modules can also be sinked, it’s a really good model for practicing that move.
Diagrams here and the video and some more pictures after the break.
Here’s a very easy icosahedron by Heinz Strobl. It requires 20 strips of 6 squares for the triangles and 30 strips to knot them together (strips of 5 squares also work). Only the knotting strips will stand out, but I found it’s still better to use two colors. You can make a bigger model when assembling 6 triangles instead of 5 and connecting them to a 5 triangle module.
Diagrams here and the video after the break.
Since a lot of people were asking for a slower video of the omega star here it is. Unfortunately I still had to speed it up a little, but I did it on the easier bits. The very last part had to be left out because I got to the 10 minute limit, but it’s just the same step over and over again, so nothing is really lost.
The other video was too fast, so I hope you can understand this one. But I will never repeat myself enough: look at the diagrams before you start to whine, I made it according to the diagrams, this video should help you, not instruct you.
Diagrams here and video after the break.
For this strip origami I used the Sphere94 folding method to make the sides. It wasn’t assembled in any special way, I just kept making pentagons and knotting them together. It’s actually easy to make since every pentagon holds itself together on its own, so knotting the pentagons together isn’t a problem. Again I used some of my old school notes paper, it helps cutting exact strips with the lines. Once you run out of the strip you’re using you can easily add another one by tucking it somewhere.
It took me a while and about 20 strips of an A4 paper. This particular model was made with 2cm width paper. One more picture after the break.
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