Redditor Builds Spaceship for Son from Scrap Broadcast Equipment

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By Matt Richardson
Posted 2012/12/23 @ 9:00 am
Category Kids & Family

Redditor (and father of the year) JeremiahGorman posted these photos of a simulated spaceship he built for his son Finn’s fifth birthday. Assembled with surplus electronic components including a master control board from a television station dumpster, the spaceship’s control panel is mounted below Finn’s newly-lofted bed. Check out the gallery below for photos of the build process and Captain Finn operating his brand new spacecraft.

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34 Responses to Redditor Builds Spaceship for Son from Scrap Broadcast Equipment

Mike on December 23rd, 2012 at 9:28 am said:

This is a grass valley 300 controller. The same type as used in the death star’s firing sequence. (although yes, the death star’s one has an extra row of buttons here and there, for keying & delegation….)

…The link is my username link.

Source : I am a broadcast Engineer.

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- chmodlabs on December 23rd, 2012 at 11:32 am said:
  
  I saw a troll GIF of the death star destroying the mayans and recognized those large throttle-like controls. Nice to know that those controls were indeed from the same deck.
  
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- markm on December 23rd, 2012 at 1:48 pm said:
  
  The switcher control panel used in Star Wars was as GVG 1600-7K
  ( See it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_Wag38elbo )
  
  Probably the only place in the world where the audience cheered when Alderaan was destroyed was Grass Valley’s Del Oro Theatre.
  
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  Mike on December 24th, 2012 at 6:22 am said:
  
  Well spotted, Indeed it is. You’d be correct in GVG’s eyes too : http://www.grassvalley.com/interactive/takefive/links/GV-3084M-1.pdf , page 8.
  
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Mike on December 23rd, 2012 at 9:32 am said:

Forgot to mention: If he can find the time to get inside the panel, you can make all those buttons light up and flash…

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Steve on December 23rd, 2012 at 11:39 am said:

Looks like he is old enough to wipe and fade.

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- Jake Spurlock on December 23rd, 2012 at 6:20 pm said:
  
  Rimshot!
  
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flugfrei jones on December 23rd, 2012 at 11:43 am said:

man, i wanted something like this when i was a kid. lol!

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flugfrei jones on December 23rd, 2012 at 11:45 am said:

(now i’m content with wanting a bad@$$ flight simulator setup..)

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chuck on December 23rd, 2012 at 1:08 pm said:

In a dumpster?!? I’m always on the look out for broken gear to butcher. I’m so jealous of these cool buttons and switches!

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TigTogDew on December 23rd, 2012 at 5:47 pm said:

Oh wow, no way man how cool is that! One lucky kid!

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Jake Spurlock on December 23rd, 2012 at 6:23 pm said:

That GV board is the same one we had in Studio B at UVU. Learned my mixing skills doing the UVX News.

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lakawak on December 23rd, 2012 at 10:58 pm said:

It is NEVER OK to let your kid wear his hat diagonally backwards. Let alone take a picture of him like that and post it on the internet.

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Nimbus on December 24th, 2012 at 3:14 am said:

Ha cool – I made something similar when i was a weebie.. spent a couple of years adding lights and buzzers to it. Had a photo copier as a portal window and some old audio mixing gear as buttons and levers… those T-bars are pretty cool.. wish I had found some of them!

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jimbotbay on December 24th, 2012 at 9:09 am said:

lol … the stories about a kid playing with the new spaceship dad built for him, and all the commenters ( adults, theoretically ) can do is try to out-geek each other by showing that they know what kind of long-outdated equipment it is.

congratulations, losers, we’re all suitably non-impressed. now grow up and get a life.

sheesh.

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Frederick McCloud on December 24th, 2012 at 9:51 am said:

Awesome Dad, I had to make do with a cardboard box with crayoned control panels. This kid is lucky to have such a great father.

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Andres Leon-Geyer on December 24th, 2012 at 11:43 am said:

What a lot of (good) work and imagination, thats father love. The kid looks really happy. Congrats to both of them for having each other.

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Shawn L. on December 26th, 2012 at 8:14 am said:

Spaceship built for son?

I guess he was preparing for the Mayan Apocalypse by going “Jor-El” route.

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Andy on January 2nd, 2013 at 1:28 pm said:

Contact me lets open a franchise of this Promos32@gmail.com

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