These air powered automatic sliding doors are inspired by the ones seen in sci fi like star trek.
Star trek style doors.
November 27 2011 in 1966 gene roddenberry introduced fully manual doors powered by a stagehand on star trek.
A step by step guide to installing air powered sliding doors as seen on star trek has surfaced over at instructables.
In star trek doors seem to knowwhen characters want to go through them and they never open by accident when someone is just walking by.
Are you a handy geek.
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The next generation but this didn t give him much to work with.
Air powered star trek style door.
I always wanted a piece of star trek and the disney monorail in my house and one thing they have in common is that they both have automatic sliding doors.
The fwooshsound of the door was later dubbed into each show but progress marches.
Star trek style air powered doors by loef star trek has featured a great deal of tech over the years that eventually came to pass consider the ipad for instance but one of the neatest features perfect for any geek domicile has not been widely adopted.
Star trek enthusiast marc devidts had those same dreams and built an air powered automatic.
It would be the perfect most geek ified entryway for my bedroom.
The doors are normal in appearance presumably to appease the designers.
No inside of a cardassian starship had yet been seen.
Star trek style air powered doors.
The sliding doors are controlled by a panel switch and have a key which can lock them open or shut and the door also boasts a vent above it for air ventilation after operation.
Production designer herman zimmerman s starting point for the interior of deep space nine was the cardassian architecture established on star trek.
Then you d want to take the elevator to the bridge and walk through those automatic air whooshing doors.