Cable modem bouncer

The cable modem at our Makerspace is super flaky and likes to not give out IP addresses.  We can VPN into the space to take care of the odd network issue, but if the internet is down, someone has to drive in and 99% of the time it’s fixed by rebooting the modem. Using a…

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The fifth element stones

Every five thousand years, when the planets align in a specific manner, a great evil is allowed free to attempt to destroy all life. The Mondoshawan have the only weapon known to be able to destroy this evil; The 5th element.  In 2263 they will return with four stones that represent the four elements of earth,…

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Leia’s defender sport blaster

When you absolutely, positively have to kill every storm trooper on your diplomatic mission to alderaan, only the Defender Sport blaster will do! My sister is into cosplay, which seems to translate into My sister is into me making costume props for her that she never wears.  Leia’s blaster is the latest in that lineage….

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Melted Vader helmet

Darth Vader’s helmet was crafted from highly polished woodoo hide, durasteel, obsidian and plasteel merged and formed using Dark Side alchemy. Acting as the cap to hermetically seal Vader’s life supporting 10 layered armor,  It allowed vader to see in infrared, survive the vacuum of space and act as a neural control interface to all…

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3d printed ruined splicer mask

During the Rapture Civil War, adam abuse was rampant and it’s effects led to the downfall of the human population of Rapture.  Continued use of adam deformed and the mind and body of the people of rapture, turning them into monsters willing to kill each other in the hopes of find the tiniest remnant of…

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3d printed splicer mask

Intricate masks were once worn in rapture by the aristocracy at the lavish parties thrown by Sander Cohen. they gradually saw more daily use to cover the ulcers and sores that started to appear on their faces from Adam abuse. As their minds continued to slip, the masks stopped coming off until they became the…

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Gilding 3d prints

I’m working on Cohen’s invitation mask from BioShock and decided that I would make it pre fall of rapture as opposed to the beat to hell splicer masks that you see the rest of the game.  You’ll notice pretty quickly that almost all of the tutorials online about gold leaf assume you are laying down…

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3d printed San mask

Princess Mononoke was a favorite anime of my wife and I when we were dating so when I started making stuff for our game room, Sans mask was high on the list to print. I found a model on thingiverse by RobGlacier that nearly fit the bill. I scaled it in the X and Y…

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Reversing an Alienware MIO board

Alienware has this cool setup where, if your game supports AlienFX, you can have lights responding in your AlienWare PC to in game events. I want this feature. I don’t want to buy an AlienWare machine.  ebay had a MIO board that looks simple enough to emulate on an AVR, so I’m gonna grab some…

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