Posts: 43821 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 05-17-2020 04:39 PM
Adam Savage's latest one-day build for Tested.com is a replica of a laser ranging retroreflector like the type left on the moon to make precise measurements of the orbit and orientation of the moon relative to Earth.
It's a model that makes use of off-the-shelf prisms that mirrors light directly back to its point source, like the mirrors on road markers or bicycles. This replica is of the kind of retroreflector array NASA is sending with current Mars missions. And for this quick build, we see the debut of some tools like the sheet metal nibbler and unibit!