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.
An origami car that looks like the VW bug. It’s a wonderful, non-polluting, transporting device, but I guess it lacks a bit on safety points. I only had one color paper, but using 2 color paper would make the wheels, the front lights and the rear number plate white. It’s amazing how detailed it actually is for it’s size. By Charles Esseltine.
Diagrams here and the video after the break.
Another origami by Jeremy Shafer, known as venus flytrap or space monster. It’s a complicated action model, when pulled from the “leafs” or tentacles, whichever you prefer, it opens its mouth.
Diagrams from Jeremy’s website and video after the break.
After jason’s request here’s the first animal origami, everybody should know how to fold a simple crane, well this is a bit more complicated. You can make the same model with a 2:1 ratio paper by doing 2 traditional cranes, but it’s just not the same. I recommend using a bigger and thinner paper than regular A4 like I did, I ripped it a few times. This is the most complicated model so far and the video takes 20 minutes.
Diagrams here and the video after the break.
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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.
This amazing modular origami is brought to us by Jorge Lucero. It’s an intermediate model if you have good spatial view, but it can get very tricky with the last square. Just when I thought I had finished it I had to open some of the connections which weren’t made right, on the video you can see that the 5th square wasn’t tucked in right.
With this model you have to cut the paper exactly to 5:11 ratio for the modules. I cut 5cm by 11cm rectangles and got 9 out of an A4 paper, you need a total of 24, that’s why there are only 3 colors on my model. I used a thicker paper than normal printing paper, but that’s not necessarily better, I’m doing one in my classes with normal paper and it’s easier to fold.
When assembling the modules don’t tuck one of them all the way in, the other module won’t be able to lock to the first, instead push little by little on each one (see the video).
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A puzzle origami invented by Piet Hein and diagrammed by Sebastian M. Kirsch. It’s a fun toy to kill time, I spent about 10 minutes assembling it the first time and it didn’t get any easier the second. It’s composed of 7 different pieces made out of strips that look like those in Tetris. You can also make 6 pieces which would make it easier to assemble, here’s a Soma cube with 6 modules made with Sonobe modules. If you really like this model and the strip origami is too hard you can make it out of Sonobe units which are very easy, but I doubt it will be as sturdy.
The diagrams show how to fold the basic unit, once past that you have to figure out how to fold the rest. I advise you to make the 4th piece last since it’s the most difficult one, it’s very unstable until fully assembled.
A video and pictures of the units after the break.
