Globe Turned into Jedi Training Remote

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Remember the hovering sphere that Luke Skywalker used during his early lightsaber training with Obi-Wan Kenobi? YouTube user trooperkent made one of his own out of a hovering globe.

Via: Make, Via: Neatorama

Homemade globe

Davesbit made his own globe using maps from the Generic Mapping Tools project; he used a beachball for a mold and cast the sphere with fiberglass and foam.

Here is the plastic beach ball covered in paint for the inside of the sphere-half mold...

The stand was made from scraps of red oak from a computer table he built...

globe with stand (Via: Make, Via: Boingboing)