Drones are all the rage at the moment, whether it’s “creeping” on people at the beach or blowing up people in their homes. They’re all over the place just buzzing around and fascinating people. This specific drone is special because its owner decided to turn it into his favorite spaceship from Star Wars: The Millennium Falcon.
Oliver C posted video of his creation, along with how-to directions on Reddit and Imgur, and the final results are pretty cool. From Popular Science:
Olivier started with a custom drone body, and then cut the basic shape of the falcon from expanded polystyrene insulation foam. After making sure the frame fit over the drone without rotors thwacking into it, Olivier set about to detail the body. He even included a rectangular antenna to match the one on the Millennium Falcon, as seen in the trailer for the upcoming “Star Wars: The Force Awakens.” (The circular antenna dish was lost in the assault on the second Death Star in “Return of the Jedi.”)
To make it easier to see the drone, and because it looks rad as heck, Olivier installed LED lights, both to the front of the Falcon and along the entire curved length of the ship’s thruster in back. The project was finished up with a paint job, and suddenly a science fiction spaceship became a remote-control toy.
Now as Kelsey Atherton points out over at Popular Science, the drone only has enough juice to stay in the air for around five minutes before it crashes into a snowy grave. It’s a good place to start, though. We might have an official flying Millennium Falcon before too long. That’s a lot better than just stuffing a bunch of rocket engines into the ass of a toy Millennium Falcon and hoping for the best.
(Via Popular Science / Olivier C)