|
custom bent rectangles with cuts in the back for louvers "JB welded"
in place
|
|
some pictures of the etched/painted steel Weber dome. "Dremel Guides"
file at Yahoo site shows how lines were etched in the dome
|
|
arms etched out of the PVC surface. the incorrect shape of the
arms are one of my obvious mistakes. Straight lines in the PVC body
are hand grooved with a dremel bit and a stainless steel ruler.
|
|
Early stages of the Weber grill bowl and 18" PVC pipe body
|
|
every R2 builder does this scene with their droid at some point!
|
|
Top 2 pics show how a custom altered car power window motor/arm
raises and lowers the middle leg. Bottom pics show how a "J" bar lever on
the leg axle gets moved to 3 leg mode when leg drops
|
|
My eye design has chainged since this picture, but the motor
still rotates the eye in a circular oggling way!
|
|
the bare minimum, 9 1/2" of leg drop.
|
|
R2 "almost" standing on his own summer 2000
|
|
R2 & R7 eyes made by bending sheet metal.The lenses are
smoked plexi heated in the oven The round lens was hot plexi placed on a
soup mug with a bowling ball placed on top untill cooled.
|
|
Will take a while to download, but this shows the 2 to
3 leg transformations. R/C wasn't installed yet, so unit was hard wired to
a tractor battery.
|
|
the PVC materials used to make the leg hydraulic bars.
|
|
Aluminium flats were cut and bent at the ends and screwed to
the body and plywood bottom. Plastic pieces were cut and silicone glued in
place for the skirt panels.
|
|
A home-made rig to form heated soft 4" PVC into the 3 flat sides
and bowed front of the ankle pieces. Pressing down with a folded rag kept
the concave part in while cooling off.
|
|
A cardboard template was made to fit the foot. This template
was used to cut plastic sheet which was then line-heated at the corner area
to bend into shape.
|
|
Thick
pieces of body plastic were heated/flatened to make shoulder bells. 2 layers
thick on the outside, thinner piece on the inside. Held in place with inner
aluminium brackets, the works is covered by a wraparound skin. |
|
|
An inexpensive way to control
droid motors forward and backward. The switches from a car door power window
controls, are linkaged to servos which move them forward and back. OK for
foot drive if your motors are not geared up too fast, may cause excessive
start/stop jolt.
|
|
Cheap fiber lamp strands were
used in this setup. Four strands together in each circuitboard hole were
heated at the ends so they became one point of light. A bulb with gearmotor
and blue lens with holes all over it give a dancing flicker effect.
|
|
finished pictures of my little buddy!!!
|
|
finished pictures of my little buddy!!!
|
