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You could spend a big chunk of cash to buy vintage Star Wars playsets, or you can make your own Star Wars diorama out of repurposed materials! Here’s more from Mathieu Stern! 

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/05/12/repurposing-trash-to-make-a-star-wars-diorama-scifisunday/

It’s fairly common knowledge that Geroge Lucas took a pay cut to direct Star Wars: A New Hope in exchange for securing exclusive rights to merchandising and sequels. In backing himself, George ...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/05/12/the-glory-and-revenue-of-star-wars-merchandising-plastic-galaxy-scifisunday/

What is Star Wars day, and what does it have to do with Margaret Thatcher? Well, if 80s English politics isn’t enough to repel you from Star Wars trivia, here’s more from Newsweek:Thanks to t...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/05/04/may-the-fourth-be-with-you-maggie-starwarsday/

Here are some things that happen in Star Wars: sword fights, mysterious hermits, magic powers, princess rescues, an mysterious caves. Is Star Wars science fiction? Not since the concern over whet...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/03/24/is-star-wars-science-fiction-scifisunday/

Shortly after the first episode of DOOM appeared as shareware, it took over college campuses. By the time the full game was made available for sale, so many college students were clearing the sub...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/03/03/legendary-doomlike-star-wars-dark-forces-gets-remastered-scifisunday/

Who doesn’t want a Star Wars cabinet game? We could spend all day playing, and our housemates could just stand behind us saying “Stay on target! Stay on target!” But as time goes on, workin...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/02/11/diy-star-wars-arcade-cabinet-scifisunday/

 Check out John Park’s new guide on building custom, animated lighting for your LEGO models.Light up your LEGO buildings, spacecraft, vehicles, and more with super-tiny LEDs. Sets such as the ...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2023/11/30/new-guide-john-parks-lego-set-lighting-hacks-adafruitlearningsystem-adafruit/

Return of the Jedi is probably my favorite Star Wars movie – Rancor pit ✅, Ewoks ✅, and…Speeder Bikes✅✅. Man did I want a Speeder Bike.James Bruton gets pretty close with this project...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2023/11/01/experimental-star-wars-speeder-bike-starwars/

How do you evergreen special effects? If you’re Ridley Scott making Blade Runner, you do it through restraint and clever framing. If you’re George Lucas making Star Wars you do it through mak...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2023/07/30/how-the-computer-graphics-for-star-wars-a-new-hope-was-made-scifisunday/

An actual robo AT-AT toy. A pretty complex build with lots of gears and servos; but the results are great. From James Bruton on YouTube. You can see the CAD and Code on GitHub: https://github.com...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2023/06/17/building-a-better-the-star-wars-at-at-toy/

It’s so fun to watch Adam Savage and fellow model maker/visual effects artist Dan Fogler work away in Adam’s shop, both largely silent, collaborating on the building of a sci-fi speeder bike.

https://blog.adafruit.com/2023/05/14/adam-savage-and-dan-fogler-build-a-speeder-bike-model-scifisunday/

Remember when Biggs tells Porkins to “Eject, eject!,” before Porkins’ X-wing splinters into oblivion above the Death Star in Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope? This scene would imply that X...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2023/02/26/does-the-star-wars-x-wing-have-an-ejection-seat-scifisunday/

Imagine how oddly satisfying it would be to fire 400 LEGO shooter projectiles at the same time. Here, Brickstory Builds gets to find out.

https://blog.adafruit.com/2023/02/22/firing-400-spring-loaded-lego-shooters-at-the-same-time/

Check out this incredibly detailed and realistic Millennium Falcon model, complete with internal and external lighting, engine exhaust glow, and take off, landing, and other programmed automated ...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2023/01/22/absurdly-detailed-star-wars-millennium-falcon-with-automated-sequences-scifisunday/

On this Boylei Hobby Time video, he creates a mash-up diorama of Top Gun: Maverick and Star Wars elements. Using 1:144 scale plastic models, the piece depicts an X-Wing shooting down a Soviet MN-...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2023/01/15/making-a-top-gun-star-wars-diorama-mash-up-scifisunday/

The evolution for the design of Darth Vader’s Star Wars TIE fighter is explored in this EC Henry. Interesting to learn that originally, Darth was going to fly a regular TIE fighter but they soo...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2023/01/08/the-story-behind-darth-vaders-star-wars-tie-fighter-scifisunday/

If you’ve ever wanted to have a look inside the All Terrain Armored Transport (AT-AT) from the Star Wars universe, here’s your animated guide to all of its systems and capabilities.

https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/12/16/getting-a-look-inside-of-a-star-wars-at-at/

You may  have enjoyed, are currently enjoying, or will soon enjoy Andor, the heady, anti-fascist take on Star Wars created by the exceptionally skilled writer Tony Gilroy. Gilroy is so brazenly ...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/11/27/retro-andor-trailer-scifisunday/

Adam Savage has had a full-size Star Wars Han in carbonite replica for a while. But he wasn’t completely happy with the fact that it wasn’t film accurate (e.g. it didn’t have the proper fra...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/11/09/upgrading-a-han-solo-in-carbonite-star-wars/

Over at The Smuggler’s Room, they discover alien facehuggers in their midst. While usually a Star Wars prop building channel, they have to pivot and build a Nostromo-worthy airlock to space the...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/11/06/making-an-airlock-for-your-spaceship-home-scifisunday/

Now here’s a Halloween costume crossover I never would have thought of. On Much Props, he shows how he crossed a plastic Jack-o-Lantern with a Mandalorian helmet to create a… Mand-o-Lantern? ...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/10/24/how-to-turn-a-plastic-pumpkin-into-a-star-wars-mand-o-lantern-helmet-halloween/

The Darth Faders Learn Guide shows you how to make your own desktop sci-fi prop that is constantly thinking about its next move…Or, take back control from the machines and use the rotary push e...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/10/05/new-guide-john-parks-darth-faders-adafruit-johnedgarpark-adafruit/

There are obviously tons of lightsaber projects online, but most of them take some artistic license with the build. In this I Like to Make Stuff video, Bob Clagett sets himself the task of creati...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/09/30/making-a-screen-accurate-star-wars-lightsaber/

After getting the official word that Star Wars: Rogue Squadron is no longer happening (at least any time soon), Michael McWhertor over at Polygon speculated about the updated timeline of theatric...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/09/25/polygon-asks-what-is-the-future-of-star-wars-movies-scifisunday/

There are a bunch of podracer trash bash projects on YouTube. This is one of my favorites.

https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/09/18/making-a-star-wars-podracer-model-out-of-junk-scifisunday/

Steven Richter takes those extremely flimsy grocery store masks and turns them into near movie ready props. Since they are built on some pretty thin plastic I can’t imagine they’ll hold up, b...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/09/17/repainting-cheap-halloween-masks/

In this Wired video, movie director and Jedi-level sci-fi nerd, Kevin Smith, breaks down all of the Jedi and Sith characters from all of the movies and TV shows.Caution: Adult language throughout...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/09/11/kevin-smith-explains-every-star-wars-jedi-and-sith-character-scifisunday/

Regardless of your opinion of The Book of Boba Fett, you have to admit that the VFX were amazing. Here is a round-up on some of them and how they were done.

https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/08/28/a-look-at-the-visual-effects-in-star-wars-the-book-of-boba-fett-scifisunday/

In this Dr. Toys video, he take a McDonald’s Boba Fett toy and crosses it with a toy robot to create Robo Fett. There are lots of good modeling and painting/weathering tips throughout this vide...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/08/21/turning-a-mcdonalds-boba-fett-and-a-robot-toy-into-robo-fett-scifisunday/

In this Punished Props video, Bill shows how he designed a Star Trek combadge in Fusion360 and then 3D printed one and cut a metal one on a CNC machine.

https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/08/11/two-methods-for-making-star-trek-badges/

Check out this incredibly detailed timelapse video, in which Steven Richter sculpts Darth Vader. There’s something so satisfying about watching that plaster dry and crack apart so neatly. There...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/07/24/darth-vader-sculpture-timelapse-star-wars-rebels-scifisunday/

I have long been a fan of the garage kit scene. In case you don’t know, there’s a devoted subset of the figure and scale modeling community that creates and trades in small-run, custom resin ...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/07/20/assembling-an-incredible-1-48-scale-star-wars-at-at-garage-kit/

You might not recognize the name Wendy Froud (née Midener), but in the practical effects world, she’s a legend. Renowned in film and television as a pioneer in puppetry, Froud was sought out b...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/07/20/how-the-mother-of-yoda-was-found-starwars-inversedotcom/

In this Rebel Base Builds, they create a Jawa sand speeder from coffee jars, junk, and model kit parts and a diorama base for it from styrofoam.I don’t know how anyone can look at this kind of ...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/07/19/making-a-star-wars-jawa-sand-speeder-diorama-from-junk-and-kit-bash/

I have seen a number of Star Wars Dagobah diorama projects recently. This is by far the coolest one.

https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/05/25/building-an-amazing-star-wars-dagobah-swamp-diorama/

Who doesn’t want a Star Wars cabinet game? We could spend all day playing, and our housemates could just stand behind us saying “Stay on target! Stay on target!” But as time goes on, workin...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/05/20/star-wars-arcade-cabinet-with-raspberry-pi-raspberry_pi-piday-raspberrypi/

The fictional and non-fictional science of lightsabers. Here’s more from the Science Museum:Confining a plasma into a cylinder-like shape is not straightforward due to what is called the ‘hai...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/05/15/the-science-of-lightsabers-scifisunday/

Once upon a time, in the Academy of Motion Pictures Screening Room in New York City, the sound designer of Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Wall-E and others, spoke about his process. With Indiana Jones...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/05/09/behind-skywalker-sound-musicmonday/

ADAFRUIT WEEKLY EDITORIAL ROUND-UPWe’ve got so much happening here at Adafruit that it’s not always easy to keep up! Don’t fret, we’ve got you covered. Each week we’ll be posting a hand...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/05/08/adafruit-weekly-editorial-round-up-adafruit-vl53l4cx-time-of-flight-distance-sensor-motorized-potentiometer-rgb-led-matrix-cube-with-25000-leds-and-more/

It was inevitable that Disney+ would release a new trailer for the upcoming Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi series on May the 4th.Gizmodo has a breakdown of the trailer.

https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/05/04/new-obi-wan-series-trailer-drops-maythe4th-starwars/

Back in 1982, The Parker Brothers  released their first game, The Empire Strikes Back. The game was available on two popular gaming consoles at this time, the Atari 2600 and the Intellivison. Th...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/05/04/commodore-64-remake-of-atari-2600-classic-empire-strikes-back-maythe4thbewithyou-maythe4th-starwars/

It’s Star Wars Day! Today fans might be in a nostalgic mood prepping for the premiere of the Disney plus Obi-Wan Kenobi series later this month by binging the prequels! Whether you’re all abo...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/05/04/may-the-fourth-be-with-you-starwarsday-starwars-2/

How do you evergreen special effects? If you’re Ridley Scott making Blade Runner, you do it through restraint and clever framing. If you’re George Lucas making Star Wars you do it through mak...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/04/24/the-retro-present-computer-graphics-for-star-wars-a-new-hope-scifisunday/

Fun new post from Gizmodo.Tatooine was meant to be the furthest place from the bright center of the universe, according to Luke Skywalker in A New Hope. No one went there, important or otherwise....

https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/04/24/places-on-tatooine-ranked-by-gizmodo-scifisunday/

A few days ago, Disney+ dropped a teaser trailer for the new Obi-Wan Kenobi series. The trailer opens with Ewan McGregor announcing that the release date has shifted to Friday, May 27th (from the...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/04/03/obi-wan-kenobi-series-teaser-trailer-scifisunday/

Bob and the team at I Like to Make Stuff had a spare room in their offices. They wanted to turn it into both a conference room and an entertainment/tabletop gaming space. They ended up building a...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/03/04/building-a-conference-table-that-turns-into-a-rad-gaming-surface/

As previously reported, Norm at Tested acquired one of the 1/8th-scale HasLab (Hasboro’s crowdfunding platform) Razor Crest ship models. In this Tested “One Day Build,” he and Adam spend so...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/03/03/painting-and-weathering-the-haslab-star-wars-razor-crest-ship-model/

What would the TV ad have looked like if today’s The Book of Boba Fett had premiered in 1985? This faux commercial for such an 80s series attempts to offer a taste.“Star Wars is making its wa...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/02/22/the-book-of-boba-fett-ad-circa-1985/

On Smugglers Room, Brian builds a digital menu that one might find in a bar in the the Star Wars bar universe. I love his use of plastic electrical outlet boxes and other parts he found in a big ...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/02/20/making-a-star-wars-prop-digital-display/

Is this Tested video, Norm Chan unboxes the 1/8th scale Star Wars Mandalorian Razor Crest ship model from Kenner. The ship was a crowdfunded product on Kenner’s Haslab platform. It’s been ove...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/02/14/norm-of-tested-uboxes-and-reviews-the-kenner-star-wars-razor-crest/