Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Starship Bridge Simulator at Maker Faire Kansas City”.
I’M dave dalton with hammer space workshop in kansas city and we built a cardboard starship well uh, myself and michael curry. Uh collaborated on a project to bring to life a bridge filled with interactive lights and a centralized controller for all of the special effects and damage exploding panels and every triple hatches that inject balls of productive mayhem and and bring to life a classic star adventure bridge With science stations and helm stations and tactical and communications officers, an engineer diverting power to whatever system needs extra energy while uh, you know slightly chauvinistic captain sits in his very comfy chair and shouts orders. We have uh six crew stations here on board, counting the captain and we have a few auxiliary stations for younger players to work alongside older cadets, with less important sub-systems at their command, and each of these stations is required to successfully play the game and we just Exploded the panels just exploded. Each uh each computer has a single annuity, the communications center, transmits messages to other ships and issues, red alerts and puts uh different screens up on the main screen and the science station stands for anomalies and hostile vessels and engineering diverts power to needed subsystems and everybody. Just has one simple job: uh sort of, alas, bernie weaver and galaxy quest nice, one job, it’s dumb, but i’m gon na do it nice uh, but in in the spaceship it becomes this uh sort of wonderful giggling shouting match between sci-fi nerds, who get to shout Out i need a heading for deep space 2 and contact the enemy commander and insult his mother science officer find out if they have mother could barely set it up inside our hackerspace.
It was dominated our primary room, completely uh and with so many parts going into it, it really. You know it occupied my time full-time for about two months and uh. That’S a that’s a lot of time to take away from regular duties, but once we got into it, everyone said i have to see this done really. This is something i must see.
The lines have been around the corner and we’ve been running new crews. Every 15 minutes all day yesterday again today, there are a couple places you can check out number one is the hammer space website at www.hammerspacehobby.com and if you want to learn more about the game, artemis uh, just type in artemis, starship bridge simulator into your google search Engine and uh should come up with a link to the website that produces this wonderfully inexpensive, seven dollar game that provides us with so much wonderful, modifiable and freely doable codes to produce wonderful, interactive exhibits. You .