...a long time ago...about 25 years ago actually I made a lifesize rc R2 out of cardboard, sweat and a lot of tape. It made it through one sf convention before I had to mothball it because of rain the very next day, lol. Now after a long thought process over the years and after visiting so many conventions (last being the celebration III and IV). I decided this is it. I love a challenge, I've love the entire astrodroid concept as well as Star Wars (of course) and face it R2's the real hero. So this is my attempt to recreate a hero to us all R2-D2 as well as a newer hero R2-R9. Fell free to leave comments and tips....Best Regards Thomas
 

Friday, February 8, 2008

back from my trip and back at it....

The trip went well, for the most part but missed visiting an R2 builder. I'll have to catch chris next time. Anyway, most of my parts arrived when I got to Stanford. So even though I'm still a little jetlagged I desided to tackle my front logic displays today. The good news is that it works and is inexpensive while the bad news is that I'll need about 60 more ft of fiber optics. Fortunatly I'll be back in the US (east coast) next month. In case anyone is wondering it takes about 80 ft of fiber optics to make both front and rear logic displays on 2 complete artoos. These guys in the USA have the best prices www.fiberopticproducts.com. Once I figured out how I would approach this it took only an hour to make them. In the future I may go over to the J.E.D.I setup on 1 of these artoos but this present setup will keep me on schedule.

I'll have to tweek the timing somewhat but I'm pretty satisfied. More to come...