Collaborate Disseminate
After loud and negative feedback from players, EA and DICE have pulled microtransactions from the game, at least for now. Continue reading EA Has Removed Microtransactions From ‘Star Wars Battlefront II’
A bleak, ‘Candy Crush’ version of a ‘Star Wars’ game. Continue reading ‘Star Wars Battlefront II’ Is Everything That’s Wrong With Big Budget Games
280,000 downvotes in under 24 hours is an impressively awful feat. Continue reading ‘Star Wars: Battlefront II’ Gave EA the Most Downvoted Comment in Reddit History
[Super 73] make electric scooters, and they made some Star Wars Speeder Bikes with a twist for Halloween; adding some mirrored panels around the bottoms of the bikes made for a decent visual effect that requires no upkeep or fancy workings. Having amazed everyone with the bikes, they followed them up with a video of the build process.
The speeders are shells built around their Super 73 electric scooter, with bases of what looks like MDF sitting on anchor points. Onto the base platforms goes cardboard and expanding foam to create the correct shapes, which are then sanded then coated …read more
Continue reading Star Wars Speeder’s Finishing Touch: Mirrors
Sometimes great projects keep evolving. [Bithead942] built himself an R2-D2 to accompany him when he goes a-trooping — but something didn’t feel quite right. Turns out, R2 was missing its signature beeping banter, so he made it more contextually responsive by implementing a few voice commands.
[Bithead942]’s main costume is that of an X-Wing pilot, and the replica helmet works perfectly; it already has a fake microphone — easily replaced with a working model — and the perfect niche to stash the electronics in the ‘mohawk.’
Even though the helmet has the perfect hiding spot for a circuit, space is …read more
Some of the luckiest kids in the world have to be the ones with hackers and makers as parents. While normal kids are stuck playing with cookie cutter mass produced toys, these kids get one-off gadgets and creations that will be the envy of the playground. Frankly, some of the stuff ends up being so cool that it’ll get the adults wishing they could go back in time and play with it.
One such parent, and one such project, is the Imperial Rocker by [Matthew Regonini]. Hoping to instill an obsession with a galaxy far, far, away on his offspring, …read more
Continue reading Imperial Rocker For Stopping Tiny Rebel Scum
Lightsaber battles, space combat, and uncomfortable romances. Continue reading ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Trailer Analysis, Porg-Only Edition
The ‘Gonk’ droids from the Star Wars universe are easy to overlook, but serve the important function of mobile power generators. Here on Earth, [bithead942]’s life-size replica droid fulfills much the same purpose.
Cronk — functionally an oversized USB charging hub with a lot of bells and whistles — is remotely controlled by a modified Wii Nunchuck very controller similar to the one [bithead942] used to control his R2-D2. With the help of an Adafruit Audio FX Mini, an Adafruit Class D 20W amp, and two four-inch speakers, the droid can rattle off some sound effects as it blows off …read more
How often after being exposed to Star Wars did you dream of having your own working lightsaber? These days — well, we don’t quite have the technology to build crystal-based weapons, but tailor-made lightsabers like redditor [interweber]’s are very much real.
Piggybacking off the Korbanth Graflex 2.0 kit — a sort of bare-bones lightsaber ready to personalize — [interweber] is using a Teensy 3.5 to handle things under the hilt. Instead of taking the easy route and cramming everything into said handle, a 3D printed a cradle for the electronics and speaker keep things secure. The blade is made up …read more
“We must organize and train forces to be able to prevail in any future conflict which could extend into space.” Continue reading The Air Force Is Getting a Space General
