Building the Millennium Falcon Piece by Piece
A group of makers in Tennessee have embarked on a mission to build a full-scale Millennium Falcon, to be over 100 feet long and 30 feet high when completed.
Continue Reading
replica
PDP-8 Replica Project
On the Vintage Computer Festival website, they document a number of builds of replica computers from the history of computer science. This gallery shows progress pics from the recreation of a DEC PDP-8, the first commercially-successful minicomputer. This is a non-working replica, BTW. To get the look of the Flip-Chip Module Arrays inside, photocopies of […]
Continue ReadingTiny grand battles
One of the great things about Maker Faire is the opportunity to meet clever people and their fascinating projects. Often you have a conversation with a person who is highly skilled in an area you have never really considered before. This was the case when I met up with Jerry Etheridge of the North Texas […]
Continue Reading
Landspeeder replica is spot-on
Daniel Deutsch built this crazy-accurate replica of Luke Skywalker’s beat-up XP-34 landspeeder – We built this fiberglass replica landspeeder from the ground up on a custom aluminum chassis. The electric drive system is capable of a top speed around 25 mph. The speeder is the same size as the original, and can travel several miles […]
Continue ReadingOlympic village in playing cards
Brian Berg spent 20 days recreating Beijing’s Olympic Village using over 140,000 playing cards. (and apparently didn’t sneeze once during construction) [via Gizmodo] More: Playing Card Top Hat
Continue Reading
