Archive for September 2015

When Randy Slavey’s son turned 13, the newly minted teenager asked his parents to remodel his kid-themed bedroom in the style of two of his favorite games, Portal and Portal 2. The elder Slaveys didn’t disappoint.

If you want to impress your neighbors, you should buy this cool life size AT-ST and park it on your lawn. Just be sure to point its blasters at your least favorite neighbor. Now you can relive your favorite scenes from The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi with this life-size Star Wars AT-ST by sculptor Sebastian Kucharski.

I made it through almost the entire first season of Game of Thrones assuming that Ned Stark would be a main character throughout the entire series. Having not read any of the books, it was a decent enough assumption that happened to be very wrong.

September 4th is Force Friday, when Disney is streaming a massive unboxing event. It’s a huge day for Star Wars collectors. Maybe the biggest day in decades. Two items are sure to be of particular interest for fans who like drones.

I find ants to be creepy. I mean, they aren’t as bad as spiders, but still, I would crush every one of them if I could. At least now I know how to make them march in a perfect circle and stay away from me.

Beat SkyNet at their own game by getting your very own Terminator. Model T-850 to be precise; already battle damaged, so you won’t be surprised when it get’s a bit beat up during its first trip into the future, the past or wherever, to fight other Terminators.

I always figured the Dark Side of the Force had a better recruiting program than simply waiting for your kids to grow up and trying to turn them to evil. Perhaps they used recruiting posters of some sort showing off lava-covered planets and epic battles with Jedi, or maybe they just hung things like this on the wall.

Dexter Industries makes educational electronics and robotics kits for all levels of experience. With its new GoBox subscription service, the company aims to be more involved in the progress of robotics newbies, particularly children. The heart of GoBox is the GoPiGo, an open source robotic car based on the diminutive Raspberry Pi computing platform.

Like the Wright brothers before him, this man has a serious need to fly. Some might call him adventurous. Others would call him innovative. I call him crazy. The custom-built aircraft you see here is called “The Swarm,” but I call it, “Let me off ths crazy thing!” A single drone can’t lift a person, but wire 54 drone rotors together and it’s not a problem.

The Generation 1 Transformers join Fascination Toys’ Metal Earth 3D model kits. The flat-pack kits come in four models – Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Megatron and Soundwave – that are just under 4″ tall when assembled. Here’s a promo video by Vat19, which for some reason rebranded the kits as Metal Works: You can order the Transformers Metal Earth kits from Vat19 for $12 (USD) each or from Amazon for $11 each.

D & D is an awesome game. All you need is your imagination. Build a character and have an adventure. It’s so easy that just about anybody can play it. Even those who can’t see can get in on the fun thanks to things like this cool D20 for the blind.

NETGEAR’s recent entry into the home security space is designed to make it easy to monitor and record your home or office remotely. Unlike other systems on the market, the Arlo is truly wireless. Other than connecting the base station to an outlet and your internet router, the cameras themselves have no wires whatsoever.

Last July, we checked out Mike Schropp’s Micro LEGO computer. Here’s another custom made but more discreet mini PC. Made by French company Kubb, the Wood Kubb is a 4.9 cubic inch computer with swappable handmade wooden shells.

Halloween will be here before you know it. They already have Halloween stuff in the stores, and the giant Halloween pop-up store in my town is already open. That means it’s time to start thinking about what you want to dress up as.

What is better than Grand Theft Auto V? Grand Theft Auto V with Star Wars sprinkled on top. YouTuber TwoDynamic shared this footage of a GTA V PC mod, created by Justin Lewis of Arterius Modding.

Normally, city slicker Batman wears a cowl that has pointy ears on it, but his country cousin Western Batman has a cowboy hat that has pointy ears on it. I love this alternative Batman character, it reminds me a lot of the Gunslinger from the Dark Tower series by Stephen King.