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You can click through to the author's dome-selling site, they seem to be aimed as a kind of group-fun, beach toy or team-building type of fun project. And it seems the author uses them as a combination point of instruction and ice-breaker while teaching classes in design.

Moreover, though it's an area of history/design I'm not familiar with, it seems they are keeping alive a certain dream of Buckminster Fuller, making geodesic dome kits available to those who want them and allowing for the possibility that it may at some point trigger a worthwhile structural use of the idea.

Some pictures at

https://twitter.com/domekitcc



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