a gorgeous custom-built control board that mimics a real spaceship. Jeff Rogers, who used to work on rockets and currently works on self-driving cars, built the device's hardware and software.

He tells Robert Siegel how he came up with the idea of battling spaceships as a way to use a donated computer ... spaceship. And what I got going was a display which showed two spaceships on the ...

and his son found a new interest in all things space — So [Jeff] took the opportunity to make the desk into this mind-boggling control panel. We saw a similar project recently, but this one ...