Good NewsHigh school students build their own ‘Battlestar Galactica’ simulator
Five high school students from Marin and San Francisco are teaming up to build a Battlestar Galactica Viper simulator, complete with 360-degree motion.
So far, they have an old Piper Cherokee fuselage — found in an airplane scrap yard, cut to size and now housing a racing seat with a six-point harness — with a motion-control frame thanks to Autodesk Inventor and the help of a professional welder.
They are currently developing the simulator software to make it "fly."
To fund the ambitious project, the five teens asked for donations on Kickstarter. They quickly surpassed their initial goal of $2,500 — at the time of writing, they've topped $6,000 — and are now hoping to finance the entire project for $10,000.
The project is set to debut at Maker Faire.
"Our team is building this project as part of the Young Makers program. We want to learn more about engineering while we have fun making a project that hasn't been done before. We like a challenge! We also want to entertain people at the Maker Faire and inspire them to make things themselves," the students posted on Kickstarter.
