This Dude Made a Star Trek Door
Very impressive. Maybe not quite as impressive as A FUCKING DOORKNOB, which performs the same task for a minuscule fraction of the cost and effort, but impressive nonetheless.
I would actually be kinder about this achievement if this dude — who obviously put a great deal of time and effort into this thing — had remembered to include A FUCKING MOTION SENSOR. What’s the point of making a goddamn Trek door if it doesn’t open automatically? It’s like building a a phaser that requires you to punch someone in the face first. IT’S NOT SAVING ANYBODY ANY TIME. (Via Great White Snark)
About The Author
Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.