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I made a spaceship. It's not airtight or flight-capable, but it's definitely awesome! It's called the Cosmic Onion.
I made a spaceship. It's not airtight or flight-capable, but it's definitely awesome! It's called the Cosmic Onion.
Inside spaceship videoTakeoff Spaceship videoMaking the spaceship body
Making the spaceship body
Skeleton made from PEX pipe
Walls made from cardboard
Inside
Door:
Door:
Sheets of cardboard were glued to a length of PEX pipe. A dowel rod, attached to the sides of the spaceship, was slid inside of the pipe so that the pipe and cardboard door are free to rotate.
Panels of cardboard were creased, wrapped around the PEX pipes, and hot-glued onto the pipes.
Finished body
Windows
Seams painted red
Final paint
Door painted black
Spray-painted name
Lights
Candy mobile sign for Halloween
Making the dome
Making the dome
For the front window, I made diameter geodesic dome from plexiglass. Geodesic domes are made of many triangles of two different dimensions, which form raised hexagons and pentagons. The hexagons and pentagons were first taped together to get the angles right, then hot-glued.
Paper geodesic dome prototype
Stack of laser-cut plexiglass triangles
Hexagons and pentagons taped together
Shapes glued together
A hexagon taped together
Pentagons glued together
Nearly finished dome
Finished dome, taped together
Finishing touches
Finishing touches
Front with dome
Lights
More lights
Back side
Logo and mascot for the Cosmic Onion Spaceship
Summer 2019
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