Posts Tagged ‘ Astromech ’

Scavenging: Backup Unit?

Recently at work, they gave away old stuff that they were not using anymore so I got tons of electronic junk (read: “treasure” for me). Part of the lot was this “Adorable” Backup Unit.

It’s heavy, it’s all metal (almost) , it’s huge… but it’s also very full of components I’m sure I’ll be using !

So, enough waiting, here’s a picture of the front and back of the monster:

Also, point of interest, I haven’t exposed the guts of this one but here’s a quick shot at the cartridge slot for the tapes. notice the movable arm/platform ? that will SO be useful for when I’ll be doing the Astromech (R2) for the center leg.  Can’t wait to get it open tho…

2010
12/21
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Component Scavenging
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R-Series Astromech: R2 Builders Patches !

I Received my R2 Builders Patches as well as the MSE-6 one 🙂

They are really looking AWESOME ! and once again… I need a new bag… :/

enjoy!

2010
11/26
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Droid
R-Serie Astromech
R2-D2
R6-P4
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R6-P4: Colour Plan

Here’s a very approximate coloring plan for my R6-P4. nothing sure for now but here it is:


(click to enlarge)

2010
11/23
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R-Serie Astromech
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R6-P4 : R6 Skin

I figured out something really awesome lately.

The skin used for the R6 is the same as the R2, which mean, I can make a 2nd head for my R6 that would have an R2 Dome so I’d have 2 droids in the same ! just need to keep the right colour scheme and everything will be fine ! And on the R2 Builder forum, there is some guy selling an R2 Skin in Styrene for cheap price… might be a next buy! 🙂

Oh and the bright thing about the Rob-o-troller (Name still need to be finalised, in fact, my droid controller add-on) is that, I can configure the menu to send whatever commands I want so, I can easily switch to another ‘droid’ control just by changing which menu I’ll be using on the controller.

2010
10/18
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R-Serie Astromech
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Droids: Li-Po Batteries? Nah…. Nano Phosphate !

Changed my mind for the batteries in the Astromechs & the MSE-6. Instead of going with Li-Po Battery packs, I’ll be building a few Nano Phosphate Battery packs (A123 batteries in fact). They might be a bit more heavy and less powerful (with and without load) but they don’t have the fire hazzard warning (unless you dead short them continiously, which could ignite them… but that’s not going to happen). And Actually, I’m VERY concerned with the fire hazzard warning. I really don’t want a possible risk of fire in my droids!

More comming on that topic soon… well, as soon as I can get some A123 batteries…

2010
09/29
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Droid
Electronic
MSE-6 'Mouse' Droid
R-Serie Astromech
R2-D2
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R-Series Astromech: Names!

My girlfriend and I finally decided on which astromechs we’d be building.

Mine will be named R6-P4 (P4 stand for Prototype-4th).
Her’s will be a classical R2-D2.

Both will have sort-of the same features (2-3-2, all MicroControlled, Moving HPs, Logic Board, Gyro Stabilised and the list goes on and on and on…). Only difference is that on Mine, I might integrate a Pico Projector in the HP (still unsure). Both will drive on LiPo battery pack and will be made of Styrene (until we redo them in aluminum).

I will post the Colouring Pattern for the R6 sometime later when I’ll have time.

Stay tuned !

2010
09/28
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R-Serie Astromech
R2-D2
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