Halloween may be over for another year, but UFOs in your yard are cool year-round. This one might take the cake. [frydom.john]’s excellent UFO is fully programmable and contains about 2000 addressable RGB LEDs, smoke, a laser-lit ramp, and of course, an alien crew.
Under the hood of the wooden frame, you’ll find a Teensy 4.1 running the blinkenlights. There’s also a hacked smoke machine, because what’s a UFO without smoke or fog emanating from underneath? There are six PC fans to blow it around and recycle it, and the ramp runs on a linear actuator.
[frydom.john]’s project notes (PDF), which they refer to as ‘scrappy/hacky’ are also available. We beg to differ a bit on the scrappy/hacky part; it’s 60 pages long and full of photos and diagrams and charts. Even so, it may not be enough for you to replicate this extraterrestrial vehicle, so [frydom.john] is open to questions. Be sure to check this thing out after the break.
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No Close Encounters music?
There is no sound in space.
Plenty of sound in space. Just very little to propagate it after leaving the vibrating material.
Oh like when I make a suggestion in my office job…
(In office space… no one can hear you dream)
Ber- bee- bah- boh- boo!
Why waste all that talent in the backyard?
Put it up front!
You can tell that all of the schematics of UFOs are fake because the people who make them up always forget to include a toilet.
That is rather excellent, just needs a ‘probe’
He should replace the table legs with tensegrity cables. Then it would look like it’s floating.
Oh, good idea.
Make it kid friendly no monsters, please.
The kids all time best beloved friend, small guy not only on a flying saucer but riding the moon rover.
Picture on exhibition.
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