When I was a kid, I was obsessed with control panels. I dreamed of making a spaceship capsule out of my room, covered with toggles and panel lights that I could used to launch countless astronaut and sci-fi fantasies. The closest I ever came to this was a six-pad rocketry launch controller my friends (and our dads) made.

One can only imagine what sorts of dreams this amazing backyard rocketship fuels within the kids who play in it. There are tons of cool details in this build, and that build is well-documented enough on the website that you can build your own. They call it the the Ravenna Ultra-Low-Altitude Vehicle (RULAV), Ravenna being the Seattle neighborhood they live in. “Ultra-Low-Altitude Vehicle.” Cute. [Thanks, Jon Johns!]

The Ravenna Ultra-Low-Altitude Vehicle

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