Collaborate Disseminate
Everyone has a lightsaber or two lying around the house, but not everyone has a lightsaber that extends and retracts automatically. And that’s because, in the real world, it’s not …read more Continue reading Magic Cane is the Secret Behind Lightsaber
Lots of people make replica lightsabers from Star Wars or tricorders from Star Trek. Not so many people have tried to recreate the binoculars from The Last Jedi, but [The Smugglers Room] whipped up …read more Continue reading Star Wars-Inspired Cosplay Prop Uses Old Vintage Camera
Humans have been sailing various seas and oceans for thousands of years, and using boats for potentially even longer than that. But as a species we wouldn’t have made it …read more Continue reading Sailing (Directly) Into the Wind
Regular matches are fine for lighting candles and the like, but they’re a bit small and fiddly to use. After seeing some giant prop matches used in a stage play, …read more Continue reading Scaled-Up Matches Are Hilarious And Moderately Effective
For the last few years, [Mangy_Dog] has been working on what is easily the most technically and aesthetically impressive Star Trek tricorder prop the world has ever seen. With each …read more Continue reading A Guide to Field Stripping Your Voyager Tricorder
So we’ll admit from the start that we’re not entirely sure how the average Hackaday reader can put this content to use. Still, these simulated patient monitor videos on YouTube …read more Continue reading What Can We Do With These Patient Monitor Videos?
If you’d like to see what goes into making a 1/3-scale Apollo 11 Lunar Module, [Plasanator]’s photos and build details will show off how he constructed one for a kid’s …read more Continue reading Making a Kid-Scale Apollo 11 Lunar Lander
For many of us, the most difficult aspect of a project comes when it’s time to document the thing. Did you take enough pictures? Did you remember all the little …read more Continue reading Tricorder Tutorial isn’t Just for Starfleet Cadets
Despite being integral to aviation for more than a century, propellers have changed remarkably little since the Wright Brothers. A team at MIT’s Lincoln Lab has developed a new propeller …read more Continue reading Toroidal Propellers Make Drones Less Annoying
[Stephen Holdaway] needed a desk clock, and decided to whip something up from scratch. The result is a beautiful tribute to the DeLorean’s time circuits from legendary 1985 film Back to …read more Continue reading A Timepiece Straight Out of Back To The Future