Adam Savage Built a Carrying Case from Scratch in One Day for his Blade Runner Gun Prop Replica

Mythbusters host and Tested scientist Adam Savage built a custom “stylized” carrying case for his Blade Runner gun prop replica in only one day. Adam talks about the build process in greater detail with Tested editor Norman Chan. You can view more behind the scenes photos of the box build on Tested.com.

We spent seven hours in Adam’s shop watching him transform pieces of wood and metal into a beautiful carrying case for this beloved Blade Runner Blaster prop replica. The completed box is an amazing creation to behold!

photos and video via Tested

Tickle Me Elmo frozen in carbonite

Todd Blatt and the fun-loving weirdos at the Baltimore Node hackerspace froze a Tickle-Me-Elmo in carbonite because of (awesome) reasons:

I was at my hackerspace one evening and we got to talking about crazy ideas, like normal. We have a full size Han Solo in Carbonite at the space, and someone mentioned that it'd be funny to encase old toys in a smaller carbonite box. So I did. I used the ShopBot CNC router at the MIT FablLab at CCBC in Catonsville, MD to cut the box, an arduino to copy code to an attiny85 to run the randomization script for the LED lights, and my MakerBot to 3d print the side panels I'd previously designed for a different project. The side panels are posted here on Thingiverse and I just drilled out holes for the lights