About neoballs by zen magnets

About Neoballs:

Neoballs is a design brand from Zen Magnets LLC, a Colorado company that has been making precision tactile products since 2009. We started with 5mm neodymium magnet spheres, and Neoballs is now growing into a wider line of well-made objects for building, teaching, and exploring geometry with your hands.

New Neoballs products are on the way. To hear when they launch, sign up for our newsletter at the bottom of this page. In the meantime, this store also carries Micromagnets (2.5mm magnet spheres), Speks, and Zometool construction kits.

Our original 5mm Neoballs magnet spheres and Zen Magnets sets are currently unavailable. Read what happened to Neoballs and Zen Magnets.

Orders ship from our fulfillment warehouse in Utah unless otherwise noted on the product page. Processing times, delivery estimates for US and international services, duties and import taxes, and lost or damaged shipments are all covered in our Shipping policy. Returns are covered in our Return and refund policy.

WARNING

Practice responsible magnet usage! RARE EARTH MAGNETS ARE NOT TOYS. If magnets are ingested or aspirated to the lungs, immediate medical attention is required. Don’t leave them around animals, or children who don’t understand the dangers. Always communicate these dangers when sharing magnets.

PROPER MAGNET STORAGE

Ideal storage shape for magnet spheres is in a hexagon shape. The hex shape ensures minimal magnetic interference with external objects, such as pacemakers, computers, and any delicate external storage devices. The hex is also a great way to keep count of your magnets. A set of 216 yields 12 hexes made of 18 magnets, or 6 hexes of 36 magnets.

HOW TO CREATE HEXAGONS

To create a hexagon, create a ring of 6 at the end of a chain, and then wrap the chain around the ring of 6.

Once the chain has wrapped around the ring of 6 once, you have a hexagon made of 18 magnets. If you wrap the chain around once more, the hexagon will contain 36 magnets. Continue creating hexagons with the remainder of your magnets.

Next, connect all of them by the side in a long chain. Make sure the hexes are not interlocking at the connection, but rather that the magnets touch peak to peak.

Then, starting at one end, flip a hex onto the next connected hex, and flip flop across the whole chain until all are connected. Now you have a stack of hexes. Keep in a safe place!