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Now available for pre-order: Street Fighter themed Bobble Budds from Multiverse Studio Inc. Included in the release are 3.5″ versions of Chun-Li, Sagat, Blanka and Ryu – all of which will feature an exclusive bobble locking mechanism for “optimal functionality and display”.
Expect the Bobble Budds to land in in June.
Product Page: ($12 each)
As a final project for his Advanced Mechatronics class, student “kss5095″ created a functional Portal turret programmed using MATLAB and Arduino. The device is equipped with a laser sight, turret voice clips and a webcam that track targets so they can be bombarded with NERF darts.
He plans to add an exterior shell to complete the look.
Hit the jump to see it in action.
Last weekend was a pretty amazing one for geeks. Friday was May the Fourth Be With You, The Avengers was released and smashed box office records, and Saturday brought Free Comic Book Day. The annual event takes place on the first Saturday of May, and it’s been going strong for ten years. Impressive, huh? Especially considering that free actually means free. It’s a day for comic book shops to dress to impress and attract new customers, a day when comic book creators are even bigger rock stars, and a day to introduce your non-comic book reading friends to the fun that is comics.
I visited three spots for the geek holiday this year, and as I expected, each location handled the day a little differently. I go to more than one store mostly because I’m curious to see what they all do to celebrate, and I don’t mind getting a variety of the available free comics. Speaking of that, I picked up seven free comics (including Archaia’s free hardcover) in my travels, and I devoured the stack as soon as I could.
Read about my experience along with a run-down of the stand-outs among the comics I picked up after the break.
First time author Jack Streat is sharing his experience building LEGO weapons with a new book entitled LEGO Heavy Weapons: Build Working Replicas of Four of the World’s Most Impressive Guns. Included in the book are step by step instructions for building 1:1 LEGO replicas of a Desert Eagle handgun with working blowback action, a AKS-74U assault rifle with folding stock, a bolt-action Lee Enfield sniper rifle (a.k.a. Jungle Carbine), and a pump action SPAS combat shotgun.
Each set of instructions includes a complete parts listing, so you can find (or special order) any hard-to-find bricks. The book’s illustrated, step-by-step building instructions will be clear to anyone who’s ever played with LEGO bricks, and the biggest models will challenge and delight even the most serious builders.
Hit the jump to check out a promo video with demos of the various weapons included in the book.
We all know that lasers hold tremendous potential for all kinds of useful gadgetry. However, they can also be used for dangerous weapons and bizarre, pointless devices – and few are more pointlessly dangerous than ones featured in this list.
It’s still months before San Diego Comic Con but cool merchandise is already appearing on sites like QMx. Today they unveiled two exclusive maquettes that everyone is going to want to own. There’s Admiral Adama from Battlestar Galactica in 1:10 scale and measuring 5.9″ tall and Book from Firefly at 4.5″ tall. Both are limited editions of 1,000 pieces. Sign up for the waitlist now and you’ll get a chance to preorder these beautiful maquettes before Comic-Con and have them shipped after the show.
See more images after the jump…
Using 22 servo motors and an unbelievable amount of creativity and skill, Kenji Ishida fashioned this R/C Transformer that can covert from a car into a robot and back again in mere seconds. As you’ll see in the video after the break, the car is mobile, and the robot can move its arms, twist, spread its robo-boobs and walk.
Kenji has apparently built several previous versions of the Transformer, and more are expected in the future. We can only hope they will eventually end up on store shelves.
Nerd Approved reader Mike Iverson informed us about his incredible Gears of Wars sawed-off shotgun prop that he fabricated to open and accept shells. As you can see from the image above, the final product looks fantastic.
Check out images of the breach mechanism after the break.
