I saw a picture of the cockpit control panel from the new sci-fi movie Project Hail Mary and I couldn't stop looking at it. I decided I kind of wanted one for the shelf. The catch? I had a really tough deadline. I wanted to build this entire DIY movie prop with almost no real reference material, and no idea if it would actually work, just in time for the movie's opening weekend.

I thought printing the Pip-Boy would be the hard part. Turns out… that was the easy bit! Can I make a Fallout Pip-Boy prop built with phone?

A Stranger Things immersive experience build - easy right? If you’ve ever watched Stranger Things and thought, “I just want to step inside that world,” this project started exactly there. The goal wasn’t to make a prop. It wasn’t to build a single effect. The goal was to create a full Stranger Things immersive experience you could actually walk through — lights, atmosphere, tension, and all. And yes… it nearly fell apart. The idea: build the feeling, not just the set From the start, this...