Playing with Buckyballs

A couple weeks ago, Raffaello (@skol) told us he had received his buckyballs and enjoyed them a lot.

Intrigued as we were by those powerful and funny-looking "rare earth" magnets, JV (@jvdrean) and I immediately jumped on the occasion when Flix offered to buy some from the US.

I received mine on Monday and I'm having a lot of fun playing with them so far. I've alredy mastered the cube, the ball and the star - who knows what I'll be building next?

The only downside I experienced so far (besides the risk of putting them too close to my hard drive and wiping its contents out) was that JV lost one of my buckyballs while playing with them at the office. He was kind enough to accept giving me one of his in exchange for the lost one though.