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This is what happens when your dad and your uncle work in a design studio and love Star Wars as much as you do. You get to sleep in the cockpit of the Millennium Falcon every night. And no, they didn’t win it in a sector-wide Sabacc Tournament.

It’s easily one of the coolest — and geekiest — bedroom builds we’ve ever seen. There’s room for the pilot and his co-pilot, and the ladder that provides access to the cockpit swings up to keep bothersome Imperial goons from boarding. The fact that the whole thing was built largely out of found objects and on a shoestring budget of just $250 makes it absolutely amazing. I’m fairly confident that the Hoth-themed bedroom in this palatial $15 million home that’s for sale on Estately cost a bit more to build.

Outside the cockpit, the brothers added a couple of additional elements to make the room a little more “Star Wars.” Hanging off the back of the cockpit, there’s a wing that functions as a writing desk (when it’s clutter-free, anyway).  There’s also a massive hangar door that can slide forward to cover the window. You can see it better in this photo that shows the bed as a work-in-progress a little over a year ago:

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There’s a new beloved Star Wars droid on the street and its name is BB-8. The spherical rolling robot rocked fans when it made its debut in the first Star Wars: The Force Awakens teaser. Word got out out that it was actually a practical design instead of a computer-generated creation, but that was all confirmed over the weekend during Star Wars Celebration when BB-8 rolled out on stage in front of the assembled crowd both in house and watching online.

The idea for BB-8 came after Bob Iger saw a phone-controlled toy called Sphero and thought it could be integrated into the world of Star Wars. With the addition of a magnetically attached head piece, you’ve got yourself a pretty adorable robot. Industrial designer and Make: contributor Chris Poulsen was intrigued by the design and decided to create his own using a Sphero, magnets and his 3D design skills.

The process, which Poulsen tackled in a single day, involved slicing open a Sphero 1.0, inserting a magnet, designing and fabricating the head piece out of foam, painting the pieces and adding felt and a magnet to the head. Here’s how the finished product looks.

Though Poulsen said that the main Sphero piece is controlled by a Bluetooth, the added top piece makes it a bit less predictable than usual. “Because it’s now more top-heavy and tends to lean,” he wrote, “the gyroscope will try to correct the lean, and it will keep on rolling in whatever direction it’s pushed.”

Disney applied for a patent for what’s officially called the Magnetic spherical balancing robot drive back on March 17, 2010 and officially received it on Sept. 18, 2012. Star Wars: The Force Awakens opens on Dec. 18. Don’t be surprised if you see official Sphero BB-8’s around that time too.