Collaborate Disseminate
Georg von Tiesenhausen helped NASA get humans on the moon, but before he was brought to the US through Operation Paperclip, he was designing missiles for the Nazis. Continue reading The Last NASA Scientist to Work on Nazi Rockets Has Died
‘The Last Jedi’ became a battle in the culture war, and Kelly Marie Tran was caught in the middle of it. Continue reading Did ‘Star Wars’ Actor Kelly Marie Tran Scrap Her Instagram Because of Trolls?
Microsoft just announced some great news for fans of Star Wars and Xbox Game Pass.
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Youtuber and rubber band enthusiast [JoergSprave] is a big fan of Star Wars, and he loved the look of the blaster that Han Solo gave to Rey. He’d seen a few replicas of Rey NN-14 gun, but hadn’t seen any that actually fired anything, so he set out to make one that did.
The build itself is from plywood, with a paint job to make it look like an old blaster. What makes the build really cool is the bullets used: glow sticks! [Joerg] created space in the magazine for three glow sticks, so you’ve got a couple of shots …read more
Continue reading Rey’s Blaster Shoots Glow-in-the-Dark Bullets
This is the 76th episode of the Shared Security Podcast sponsored by Security Perspectives – Your Source for Tailored Security Awareness Training and Assessment Solutions, Silent Pocket and CISOBox. This episode was hosted by … Continue reading The Shared Security Podcast Episode 76 – Special Guest Kevin Johnson (@secureideas), Router Hacking, GDPR, NSA Metadata
Beware, arachnophobes, the robots are coming for you!
What else would you be expected to think if you watched a hexapod robot display its best Transformers impression by turning into a wheel and pushing itself in your direction? The BionicWheelBot — developed by [Festo] — should rightly remind you of the cartwheeling Flic-Flac spider, the main inspiration for the robot. Of course, Star Wars fans might justifiably see a Droideka.
The BionicWheelBot can — almost — seamlessly transition between crawling around on six legs, to literally rolling away. To do so, its three pairs of legs sequentially fold up into …read more
Nvidia thinks its ‘ray tracing’ tech is the future of video game graphics. Continue reading Watch This 3D ‘Star Wars’ Demo Running on a $60,000 Personal Supercomputer
When it comes to the title of undisputed king of the toy construction kit world, the Danes have it. Lego are ubiquitous in the toybox, and parents worldwide know the joy of stepping barefoot on a stray brick. Aside from the themed sets for youngsters and collectors, we see a lot of Lego in projects that make it to these pages. Sometimes they are from hardware hackers who’ve chosen Lego because they had some to hand or because of its utility, but at other times they come from the Lego community rather than the wider one.
Take the Star Racer …read more
Continue reading A Tabletop Star Wars Themed Lego Racer Game
As a new parent, there’s lots you have to do. You have to buy a car seat, get the baby’s room ready, figure out daycare; all the boring but unavoidable minutiae of shepherding a tiny human. But for the more creative types, that list might include warming up the 3D printer or putting a fresh bit in the CNC, as there’s no better way to welcome a little one into the world than giving them some custom gear to get started with.
That’s certainly been the plan for [Matthew Regonini], who’s been showering his son with DIY playthings. He recently …read more
Continue reading AT-ST High Chair Elevates Lucky Jedi Youngling
Finally, a good look at the troubled production. Continue reading Here’s the Full Trailer for ‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’