Instructables user mimaki cg60 wanted to transform his family’s VW bus into an R2-series astromech droid, so after working countless hours in CorelDraw and Photoshop on a design, printing it on a vinyl wrap and applying it to the bus, here’s what he vehicle looks like now.
After a full month of work and over 3000 photos (played at 15 images per second,) my friend Monsieur Caron has just released his latest LEGO short film featuring everyone’s favorite zombie-killing badass: Daryl Dixon. Check it out!
A group of Jawas get more than they bargained for when they attempt to kidnap a lone droid in the desert. There’s a reason they invented restraining bolts.
A look at the cast of the original Star Wars trilogy from what they looked when they first started filming the movies compared to what they look like today.
A $9 computer project has been fully funded on Kickstarter. As you’d expect, CHIP is pretty bare-boned, with extra costs for some connections, though a $49 touchscreen version is the most interesting configuration.
The basic edition of CHIP is effectively the circuit board ripped out of a bargain-basement Linux mini-PC. Most of the connections are pins rather than fully-formed sockets, so it seems more suited to hobbyists, though both the user interface and the pre-installed applications, including a Chromium browser, look to be aimed at a more casual audience.
It’s arguably only the lack of input devices that stop it being a fully-functioning ‘computer’ out of the box, and these are at least supported through two USB sockets (one full-size, one micro) and Bluetooth. It has a 1GHz processor, 512MB of RAM, 4GB of on-board storage, Wi-Fi support, and a composite video output socket. Configuration options include a VGA adapter for $10 extra or an HDMI adapter for $15 extra. You can also choose to buy a battery for $10.
There’s also a pocket version that throws in a case with physical keyboard and touchscreen plus a battery, effectively making it a very cheap (and very low-spec) equivalent of the iPod touch. How successful this will be remains to be seen: in principle it’s wonderful that you can have a working computer in your pocket for fifty bucks, but in practice anyone who already has even a crappy smartphone already has something at least as good as this.
Realistically it’s hard to see many people buying CHIP to use as an everyday computer, whether desktop or portable. Instead it seems more likely it will be something seen as so cheap that’s it’s viable to buy to use as a single purpose device of some kind.
For those who haven’t heard, President Obama thanked Japan for anime (among other things) during an ambassadorial ceremony back in late April, so with this in mind, artist Sarah Yoshi from Berds and Nerds crated the following comic:
Prepare yourself and your family, as two of the most beloved and cherished Sci-fi/Fantasy franchises of all time, collide in this Star-tacular, motion picture event!
While on a routine exploration mission, Captain James T. Kirk, and the loyal crew of the U.S.S Enterprise, become entangled in an Evil galactic scheme, that not only threatens the United Federation of Planets, but the very Earth itself!
Set to the backdrop of Perilous planets, Galactic adventure, and Exotic alien romance, The Carbonite Maneuver is sure to become an Interstellar sensation!