The question is does it connect to all 9 chevrons? And how efficient is it? BTW I got the source code for a DHD if you need it.

First!

this is by far the lamest thing i’ve ever seen. To waste one’s life on this, there are people starving to death everyday, and you make this crappy prop from a mid 1990s subpar movie. Nice work.

@localroger – how do you know he built this on Earth?

@Nag

Make that a ’90s sub-par movie that went on to inspire a total of THREE (so far) television series, one lasting 11 (read: eleven) seasons, IIRC.

And how does a pedal powered, gold-foil Lame-Mobile qualify as less lame than this? o.O

@nag
In his defense….you’re on the internet bitching about his “sub par movie prop” whilst people are starving to death. But hey good to see you’re doing something constructive instead.

I actually liked the stargate tv series.

@ nag
Yes, because if people are suffering, we must all live in abject, humorless misery.

Wait, no, fuck that. You know, I paid way to much for some fast food today, and threw some away because it was too much. I estimate that some 285 children died of hunger while I was consuming that over-caloric meal, which will require me to waste energy at sports to prevent me from becoming fat.

I can’t solve that problem. And that means I take advantage of my privileged position as an inhabitant of a civilized country, and enjoy myself. Whether that is eating junk food or watching someone else build a miniature movie prop for some After Effects fun.

Please go fornicate an oxidized spade.

I was a bit disappointed to see that the “V”‘s weren’t moving in the dialling (they did move on tv right?)

Hack a day is still cool, whatever the crap they post.
See it this way, if they’d remove/not post all the “not a hack” related articles, they would probably have to rename it to Hack a month and you would have to go find some place else to bitch on arduino.

It is on behalf of all those that don’t spend their entire day surfing on the interweb but still come to HAD for some “hack” news,
Thank you writers of hackaday.com

oh and by the way,
what’s an oxidized spade?
fantasy?
no really what is it?

well, i don’t know if you can dial 9 chevrons with a bunch of ZPMs, maybe you can, but maybe the stargate needs a current pulse too high for the ZPMs to handle it (we don’t know the internal resistance, but at least the naquadah is a superconductor, so we don’t have loses in the wire), in that case you should use a lot of capacitors in parallel with the modules.
But we know the stargate has supercapacitors built in, so i don’t know.

The Asgard core couldn’t dial a 9th chevron either, it puts off less juice then a ZPM. But I would imagine the Asgard would have better power generating tech then what the use for there mobile systems. I don’t see why they don’t build there own ZPMs though, they have Atlantis’s data base, the Asgard database, and replicator tech; thats more then enough to build a fleets worth of ZPMs like super quick. (the again they could build a Ancient+Asgard ship fleet in months using replicators if they would just man up and program them correctly. I am just glad to see we all finally have access to our own personal gate networks, even if it is a small gate.

yes, there is a lot of awesome technologies that could have been used in a better way.

i don’t know if the Asgard’s synthesizing technology can replicate a ZPM, it’s not just normal matter. It’s something like an isolated region of subspace from where you can extract vacuum energy or something like that.
Maybe you can make fuel for a nuclear reactor, or antimatter. (it will consume more energy than what it can deliver, but it will be a good battery)
and the nanites??, those could have done a lot of good, but they didn’t program them well and they discarded them. very disappointing.

@nebulous

“Please go fornicate an oxidized spade”

Nice one!

Someone tried to make a ZPM-ish device, but it drew vacuum energy from parallel dimensions through subspace. Didn’t pan out well, total annihilation kinda thing, tore fabric of space, carter fixed it, or maybe McKay…….nobody can make ZPM’s the knowledge and technology was lost with the ancients. A database can only hold so much info. Just watched something about Stephen Hawking and zero point energy today, on the right track. It took one ZPM to dial the address for Pegasus, maybe if they had 2 spares, they could dial 9 from Atlantis……..maybe.

I absolutely love the fact that there’s currently maybe six flames in the comments, and the remainder are all a discussion of the technology of the show. Stargate (just SG-1) is one of my favorite all-time shows.

I am very impressed with the workmanship of this. For the record (@Icarus) he did plan on making the chevrons move, but scrapped the idea because of the wiring involved. To those of you who are in the “it’s not a hack” crowd, I recommend actually reading the kid’s forum post. The “hack” part of it all is the little things he had to do to compensate for what he didn’t have (no small dinky dong jokes please).

Still, I’d rather have a gold-foil, Arduino controlled Stargate complete with giant Lego chess pieces guarding the gateroom…

can never get enough stargate.

that said, how are they gonna cancel atlantis for universe? im still pissed about that.

awesome build though, loving it.

someone needs to build a 1:1 working gate and dhd.

also, if anyone missed this, check it out: http://gizmodo.com/5422438/stargate-atlantis-home-theater-gallery

this is nice but does not belong on this site. Is this arts and crafts now or a fanboy site. I mean really I love sg-1 and but this is retarded

Real? When do the “trips” commence? How can I make a booking?

Great way to spend time with your dad and beats the tar out of setting up a sprinkler system. Good job on getting it together and remaining family lol.

Great job, and like carbuncle posted, a great way to spend som family time!

But me beeing a geek and all love this, but I would never put something like that in my garden, lol. :)

OK, nerds. You don’t write “Zed PM”, it’s just ZPM. Zero Point Module. Some cultures pronounce the letter Z as ‘Zed’, instead of ‘Zee’, like the Canadians that make the Stargate TV shows.

@ Steve
Indeed, the Americans on the show pronounce it Zee Pee Em while the Canadians pronounce it Zed Pee Em, and in the beginning they’d get annoyed when someone said it ‘wrong’. It was, indeed, a bit of an in-joke with all the Canadians working on the show.

Yeah, well, they built it and made it move and light up so it’s almost a “hack” and no, not EVERY stargate has the chevrons that move, and yes, the SG movie was epic and the franchise has done AMAZINGLY well imo, so well that you could almost compare it’s run to that of (gasp) star trek???

@ Steve – As a great man..er.chicken once said, “It’s a jo, I say, a joke son only a joke…”

if somone made a wooden dalek complete with plunger and a midget inside pedeling around on a tricycle, you would all claim it to be the best hack ever posted
although it needs more electronics…
i say good post :P

@everyone

I can’t believe how lame HAD has become. Probably thanks to you guys who comment “mad props on this awesome hack” yadda yadda.

1. This ain’t a Hack
2. If you built this you need a life
3. If you like this prop you need a life
4. This IS NOT A HACK of any kind
5. The oil spill is killing millions of animals, this will not stop it, or even help
6. Millions of children are dieing while someone selfishly builds this thing to be featured on hack a day. IT’S NOT EVEN A HACK For Almight Jesus’s sake.

the real question is….
can it make pan-dimensional popcorn?

they might be able to build something to make the chevrons spin around it and lock into place with some sort of servos and a ball bearing system or something, but that would be a lot more work looks cool though

This is neat. I love stargate, and for those of you who say that if you like it, you need a life, and that people could be doing better things than this, I’m serving in the military. I top everything, this is pretty neat. However, it could have been done better and I wish that he at least could have added some lighting. Now when we get a real stargate, which may or not be possible at all, that will be a day to remember. I doubt stargates will ever exists, just like FTL travel, and even colonization of other planets.

This is featured, who give a flying f*ck about the oil spill? This guy was never going to work on a solution so pull the stick out of your ass.

OH and our lovely EPA turned down an offer that the Dutch made, to use 4 oil skimmers to clean the ocean, because “We can’t pump water with oil back into the ocean”…. sound dumb? The oil is already in the water…