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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.

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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.

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Originally this modular needed glue, but I modified it a bit so it doesn’t need any, unfortunately that makes the origami much harder. It isn’t very sturdy when assembled since it was meant to be glued together. I used 6 square papers of 10cm. The beginning is the same as the star, but is folded a bit differently to get to the same result.

Diagrams by Yurii and Katrin Shumakov and video after the break.

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Another strip origami, by Heinz Strobl. All it needs is strips of paper and time. It’s actually not hard to make, but very time consuming. The individual pentagons are easy to make, but you must be careful to not fold them in the wrong way or you’ll have to undo the last move.

What’s nice about it is the circles and stars it makes with its shadow. I used 1cm width paper for the strips. I found the diagrams on Orihouse, you can either make the stars like I did or circles and then knot them together. You’ll probably have to use scissors to cut the ends of the strips, but then again you’re just adjusting the length of the strips (may I remind you that on normal origami scissors are strictly forbidden). Check out the 10 minute video of the making of after the break.

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Happy new year and sorry for the absence… had to finish my school project. Here’s another great modular origami suggested by Castword. A spiked icosahedron made with Nick Robinson’s trimodules. It took me all holidays to fold it. You need 30 square papers for this one, I used 10cm paper and the final model is about 17cm from spike to spike. It might have looked better with 3 different colours.

At first, when assembling, it will not hold together very well, but once all the pieces are in place it’s pretty sturdy. You can also assemble it with less modules if you’re really fed up with folding. See the video after the break.

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Never mind the no-videos-till-next-year post, I discovered that the iSight on my MacBook could do the thing, but it’s very uncomfortable. This is a planar origami by Francis Ow, it should look like there’s 3 diamonds intersecting each other in every axis’s. The modules have to be perfectly folded or the outcome will be catastrophic, as you can see on the picture. The diagrams are here (2 pages) and the video after the break.

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After castword’s suggestion here’s a lesser stellar dodecahedron. It’s a modular model made from thirty 36 degree isosceles triangle units. You can also assemble 6 or 12 units. Diagrams here and a video plus some pictures after the break. Made by Meenakshi Mukhopadhyay.

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After a long time of absence, again, I’m hereby presenting another six pointed star. This is a modular composed of 12 pieces, very easy to fold, but a bit frustrating to assemble. When connecting the last module to the first I didn’t bother locking them because I would have torn the whole thing apart and it was sturdy enough as it was. A stellar origami by Carmen Sprung.

Diagrams over here and video after the break as usual.

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A nice modular box by Robin Glynn. I made one of these a while ago, but couldn’t get it to hold together. I wouldn’t recommend trying to do this from the video, you should take look at the diagrams before doing anything. I tried to do the lid, but the modules didn’t hold together as well as I wanted, so I didn’t film that.

The diagrams are over here and the video is after the break.

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Here’s a nice star for you by František Grebeníček, unfortunately this origami doesn’t hold together very well, I’d recommend glue if really necessary. It’s made of two identical pieces, so I guess it’s a modular.

The diagrams are in Czech, but the most important are the pictures. Video after the break.

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