If you enjoy viewing the night sky and want to get to know the constellations better, this DIY Star Globe is the ticket. It’s a black cardboard orb, printed with glow in the dark ink.
With the glowing ink, you can see the constellations whenever you want. The globe measures 7.9-inches when assembled. It comes flat, and then you assemble it in sections. Then all you need to add is a string and a tack to hang if from your ceiling.
The DIY Star Globes cost $23.99(USD) each and you can get one at ThinkGeek.
A few days back I talked a bit about a spinning Mars globe that let you see the red planet in all its 4.5-inch glory. If you want to add to your tiny, spinning astral collection, ThinkGeek has a couple more spinning globes, these ones based on moons.
One of them is our Moon. Like Mars, the Moon globe is powered by solar panels and floats on a magnetic field. For some reason the moon is a few dollars more than Mars at $144.99 on ThinkGeek.
The other globe is a spinning version of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. Titan is cool because it’s one of the most likely places in our solar system to harbor life according to scientists.
One of my favorite movies to ever feature anything about Mars is the original Total Recall with Arnie. The remake sucked, but that original was fantastic ’80s fodder. I can’t think of Mars since that movie came out without thinking of Arnold with his eyeballs swelling out of his head before the air machine turned back on.
Astronomers and fans of that movie will want to get hands on this spinning 4.5-inch globe that looks like the red planet. It appears that the globe floats on a magnetic field. Its rotation is powered by low-light solar cells. That means you don’t have to worry about batteries.
Get your ass to ThinkGeek, where you can pick one up for $139.99(USD). Maybe you’ll find Kuato there too.
Where in the world have you been? Worldly travelers will enjoy having this cork globe around. As the name implies, it’s a globe made out of cork. There are many ways you can use it, one being as a travel journal of sorts where you can tack on pins on the states and countries that you’ve been or on the oceans that you’ve sailed or cruised on.
It measures 10 inches in diameter and comes with a set of red pins.
It doesn’t come cheap though, as it retails from Suck UK for $200.
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Instructables settler PenfoldPlant traded Settlers of Catan’s flat board game for a globe. A modified truncated icosahedron, to be exact. The result is a multipurpose piece that can serve as decoration, a container for game pieces and yes, a playing surface, albeit one that’s not as convenient as the original.
PenfoldPlant calls his creation the Catanosphere. If it looks like a lot of work, that’s because it is. You’ll need lots of glue, nearly 500 small magnets and a steady hand for this project.
Also, as you may have noticed some of the Catanosphere’s spaces for the tiles are pentagonal, but the game’s tiles are all hexagonal. So you’ll have to make or print pentagon-shaped copies of the tiles as well.
The globe’s shape and the presence of pentagonal tiles also affect the game somewhat, though PenfoldPlant believes that you can still play with the exact same rules as the original.
Colonize Instructables to for his detailed instructions and notes on the Catanosphere.