Hasbro is having a contest to see who can build the best Star Wars diorama using “at least five 3 3/4″ Hasbro Star Wars figures and or vehicles.” Submissions are open until November 16. See the official rules (.pdf). [via Geekologie]
From Flickr user necromancer7. [via The Brothers Brick]
With 8 synchronized catapults, 160 plastic balls per minute are launched, caught, and recirculated. Made mostly of wood, the work is ~36 inches in diameter. On permanent display in the lobby of Lower Merion Elementary School, Merion Station, PA.
Look, Ma, it’s a motorcycle with four wheels. Not a bike but, um… a “quike,” maybe?
You kind of have to see this thing move to get the point. The brand name is RevolveR and apart from novelty, the “floating spine” binding seems to serve no particular function. Still, it’s pretty delightful, and seems to operate on the same principle as the toy commonly known as a “Jacob’s Ladder”
Two aliens contained in suspended animation chambers. A central control unit monitors and sustains life support functions. The control screen is a looping flash animation. Every few minutes, a malfunction state is triggered. Sound and graphics announce the error, and a Make Controller board is used to trigger emergency flasher lights and a fog machine (simulates a cryogenic coolant leak).
Usually I write about ham radio. But looking at communication devices of the future from the past, I thought it would be fun to have a Star Trek: The Original Series Bluetooth communicator for a cell phone. I worked with Dave Clausen to hack one together from a toy Star Trek communicator, a Bluetooth module, and a microcontroller.
