Need a quick costume this Halloween? Just put together this Cardboard Darth Vader Costume and have a cool Vader helmet and chestplate ready in just a few minutes. It’s so easy, anyone can put this together. May the force be with you.
Dads these days are building all kinds of cool stuff for their kids. Like this awesome Sandcrawler toybox made by Matthew Regonini for his son. He used a single piece of plywood passed through a CNC machine. After all the cutting and etching, he assembled it using wood glue and nails. A blowtorch gave it that classic weathered look. This is an awesome playset for your figures as well as a place to store your toys.
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Patrick Stefanski has turned Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant into a desktop version of L3-37. And thankfully, it isn’t anywhere near as annoying as the actual droid from Solo. He also gave it a British accent. While I can’t stand this annoying droid, this is an awesome project. I love how it says, “what?”every time he interacts with it. Patrick did a solid job with this one.
Dericrw and his wife built this amazing Star Wars bedroom for their son.It has a super cool sleeping pod modeled after the Millennium Falcon, which fits a twin bed. The whole thing is bolted to the ceiling joists. The rest of the ship is painted on the wall behind it to give the illusion that the entire sock is parked there. This awesome kid fort has a fan for air circulation, LED lights, a TV and a secret weapons cache with his Nerf guns and lightsabers.
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Porgs are pretty darn cute. Even though fans are very divided on whether or not The Last Jedi was a good movie, I think we can all agree that we would like to have our own adorable Porg to hang out with, maybe even snuggle up with on a cold night. No? Just me? C’mon, you know you want a Porg. You can’t resist these little guys. Well, this guy built himself the cutest robot Porg. It’s much better than any of the official Porg toys that you can buy. Check it out below and prepare to be super jealous. I want one!
We could all use an exploding Death Star in our home. Well, not the real kind. I imagine that the radiation would kill you as well as the shrapnel. You can make a much safer version from an IKEA PS 2014 pendant lamp. Instructable user MariaK64 will show you how. You can follow tutorials here and here. You just take the lamp and paint it. It already expands with the pull of its string. It looks sooooo awesome and explody! Is that a word? It will be the coolest lamp in your house.
It goes well with your hand painted Death Star globe.
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While we don’t actually get to see a fully completed AT-AT playhouse in the video here, we do get to see how Colin Furze created it. This is a house sized AT-AT from Star Wars or rather an AT-ACT, the new version from Rogue One. It has a new head and a cargo bay. Hey, you have to sell those toys right? So just change these bits and people will buy it. Even though we don’t get to see the finished product, you will be impressed, trust me. He went above and beyond on this build.
Check the video again on December 9th to see the surprise reveal.
Artist Kretschmer Kreativ built this stunningly beautiful replica model of the USS Enterprise entirely out of wood. All I can say is that this ship is some serious eye candy. A real class act. I can easily see this fitting in with the other ships in Captain Picard’s ready room. It is just so lovely.
It measures 36 inches and he used all natural wood grain with no paint at all. The different colors are different woods. Apparently he is selling this one for $3000., but if you want to build one the instructions are at the link.
If you are looking for a fun project, why not make your own Sonic Screwdrivers based on the 11th Doctor’s version? Check out the one that Barbara Ribeiro made with scrapbooking paper. I’d say she got all of the details spot on. She definitely deserves some Jammie Dodgers as a reward.
Now she has a paper version that hopefully opens more than just paper doors. The light and the extension part even functions, though this version is silent.
28 year old web applications developer Ian Martin had been playing holochess with his wife and brother on a small replica board using a set of rules that someone had developed and posted online. But once he moved into a house with a garage he decided to make a full-scale Dejarik table, complete with working control interfaces, sound effects, and programmed gaming aids. Oh and the alien figures. It looks amazing.
The table has 10 working knobs, 54 functional buttons, 26 lights, and two LCD display screens. It can play the unofficial game using a program that he wrote. Ian is a genius. It looks absolutely perfect.
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