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The Mission Control Desk's Event Sequence panel controls sound files from NASA representing the major events throughout the mission. Jeff Highsmith/Make ...
Built from scratch and chronicled on MAKE, this mission control desk has everything: buttons, sliders, dials, switches, covered switches. All that’s missing is an actual spaceship ...
The desk includes dozens of buttons, knobs, switches and more than 500 LED lights, allowing his son to blast off homework […] One dad may have just launched himself light-years ahead of all the ...
This awesome DIY Mission Control Desk created by Jeff High Smith, made using a variety of switches, buttons and dials to create a fully featured command console that both adults and children ...
The dedicated dad who built the NASA Mission Control Desk for his sons hopes to teach them more about space with this impressive simulator. Ground Control to Major Dad, all systems go!
We are absolutely blown away by the level of detail that went into this amazing mission control panel that [Jeff Highsmith] made for his son. His kid just started school and needed a desk to do hom… ...
Jeff Highsmith’s Mission Control desk incorporates actual audio clips from the Apollo 11 mission. Today. Jeff Highsmith of Raleigh, N.C., is a self-proclaimed “tinkerer extraordinaire.” ...
Jeff Highsmith writes for Make magazine that the idea for the simulator grew out of a previous project, the mission control desk. And so, he said, “Over the last four months, in scraps of time ...
Father's Day is still a few months away, but one dad has just made all \nthe rest of the dads in the world look like amateurs.