ahah ! that’s cute :)

Posted at 10:26 am on May 12th, 2009 by ino

The deathstar could take it…

Posted at 10:27 am on May 12th, 2009 by Chronos

I don’t know about that, chronos, this little Enterprise could definitely make it past the big guns to the exhaust port. :P

Posted at 10:50 am on May 12th, 2009 by Finger

Nice.

Posted at 11:10 am on May 12th, 2009 by anon

@finger: Possibly, but they wouldn’t have had the intel to know about the exhaust port. Many Bothans died bringing the plans to the Alliance. :p

Posted at 11:43 am on May 12th, 2009 by sellout

Nice one!

Posted at 11:49 am on May 12th, 2009 by ragnar

Simple, yet very impressive. Excellent work.

Posted at 12:01 pm on May 12th, 2009 by darkore

Very cute. :)

Posted at 1:05 pm on May 12th, 2009 by sansan

Something not quite right here. Need to raise the resistance to match the resistance of the white?

Or the voltage drop across the white LED? Might just be semantics… But there is a difference.

Posted at 1:16 pm on May 12th, 2009 by Ed

No, the resistors are not used to “raise the resistance of the red LEDs to match the white LED,” they are used to limit current. Yes, there is some internal resistance in LEDs (and he relies on such to limit current in the ~3V white LED), but there is a majority non-linear (therefore non-resistive) voltage drop in the operating range. You want on the order of 1-20mA for a typical LED; you get around 1.9mA if his reds drop 1.7V (a typical value).
Just a little EE 101.

Posted at 6:55 pm on May 12th, 2009 by PocketBrain

This is win.

Posted at 7:12 pm on May 12th, 2009 by zigzagjoe

With smd component(led,resistor and watch batteries) it could be smaller one!

Posted at 7:38 pm on May 12th, 2009 by kabukicho2001

Made with geek and win.

Posted at 7:44 pm on May 12th, 2009 by stunmonkey

Ahem!!
The Bothans got involved with the Alliance after the first Deathstar was destroyed. And well after the group went and hid on a series of bases.

Indeed these Bothans did indeed supply the Alliance with the location of the second one, and many were killed.

But it has nothing at all to do with the Federation and Star Trek. The universe of the second oldest completely active series is ours.

Posted at 8:26 pm on May 12th, 2009 by GCL

This wins. No discussion.

Posted at 4:47 am on May 13th, 2009 by Squeakyneb

I should probably have picked a more complex alias…

(This is the Wolf that posts comments here occasionally, not the author of this hack)

Posted at 11:19 am on May 13th, 2009 by Wolf

I’ll buy 10, awesome because they spent the time.

Posted at 5:24 pm on May 13th, 2009 by Shadow

I might have to build one of these for myself.

The fun appears to be making the model appear aesthetically appropriate while also operating and providing good enough mechanical stability to support itself.

Cool.

Posted at 11:15 am on May 14th, 2009 by strider_mt2k