Buckyball Squid - Oh, Yeah!

This is my favorite original.  It's got physics mojo, relying on some kind of magnetic pole thing to keep the squid arms floating away from each other.  I hung the squid head on a length of monofilament threaded and knotted through a plastic washer I made from a drink cap.  I chose to hang the head and then attach the legs.  When attaching the legs, you move them in slowly to give them a chance to tell you if they're going to freak out and stick to the next leg over. Don't let them.  You know how it is - magnets.

 Squid hole view.  The head is a stack of 3-ball-side pentagons with a hole in the center.

Buckball Penta-Cannoli Torus

Guy at work got a set of these as a present.  They are ephemeral, occasionally frustrating, odd, and sometimes rewarding.  Here's a 5 sided torus made from little cannoli shapes.

 First make 5 of the pentagons.  We left the hole in the middle.  The shapes have 4-ball sides.  The hole may help with allowing the cannoli tubes to flex when you place the last tube.

 Here are the five.  If they don't want to line up square, you may have to unzip your cannoli and flip it the other way.  You know how it is.  Magnets.  The last one goes in tight; you have to simultaneously pry open the nearly-complete torus and make sure you get the match-up correct, too.  Took me two tries.