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DIY air-powered sliding doors add Star Trek touch to your home
Dec 8th
Instructables has posted a do-it-yourself guide on installing Star Trek-style air-powered sliding doors in your home. The process is relatively complicated, involving an air compressor, various pneumatic hardware, a door cut in half, above-door vent (to allow the famous whoosh sound to be heard), and more. A PIC microcontroller powers a key-equipped door open/close switch on the wall and controls the air supply. A lot of work, but the results are pretty impressive. We’re tempted to try this at home ourselves.
Video of the door in action after the break.
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“Nano Trek”: World’s Smallest Model USS Enterprise Measures 8.8 Micrometers
Mar 15th
Presenting the world’s smallest model of Star Trek’s USS Enterprise-D! Measuring a whole 8.8 micrometers in length — or less than one-tenth the thickness of a human hair — “Nano Trek” was fabricated by Japanese scientists at one-billionth scale using a “30 kV Ga+ focused-ion-beam CVD using phenanthrene gas.”
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