R2 in action...better video...DOME TURNING!!

Here is another video..different camera and the dome is turning now!!

Video cut off because memory card was full...but I have enough to show it working!

Future's so bright I gotta wear shades..

OK Lame title..

One last Back to the Future thing...DOc's future glasses. I just drew the best I could from pictures and referencing my own head size.

I had to sand them with a fine sandpaper for a brushed metal look. The yaren't perfect..but good enough for a quick addition..

I went with a coupe of the more blurry pictures..they make it look better. ;) Ones with flash made every irregular scratch jump out...so I wont show those. ;)

Yes picture was taken upside down.

Whew...problem solved...R2 WORKS!

I resoldered my motor at work (with some help from a better solderer) and remounted it tongiht. Wasn't ooo bad. Tried it out..and IT WORKS!!

Sorry if I overreacted..I was pretty bummed out last night!

So now my R2 moved nicely, has easy controls from a Ps2 wireless controller, has sounds at the press of a button, or the interactive version, had interactive HP that lights up, and the DOME MOVES!!!!

Thanks for being here supporting my whining guys!

Anyone want a non working R2?!?!

Ok..after getting a new control system and finding I had to replace the dome motor, modifying my saturn motor, getting an adapter and wheel, making and mounting a mount for it, waiting for a new ESC..then finally wiring it only to find I fried it, then ordering a repair, sending it back and waiting again, then finally last night I got the new ESC, wired it up....

IT WORKED! For about 10 seconds. Then nothign. The dome quit turning. No..not a loose wire. Traced the problem back to the motor which was a major pain to mount. Reluctantly removed it..touched wires to a battery...worked a little sometimes...opened motor...closed motor...worked like once...

Then nothing. WIll not work at all.

SO I guess my motor modification didn't work...so here I am...do I try again only to duplicate this whole pain in the butt hassle only to end up with the same possible results??


I was SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO looking forward to this being over, then I fried the damn ESC..then last night I thought FINALLLY this can be over and I can be where I was before I started this whole mess...but the laws of fate screwed me over again. At least I had 10 seconds of relief before it ended.

SOOOOOOO SICK OF THIS!

Flux Capacitor DONE!

Finally finished my Flux Capacitor! My lights arrives yesterday so I finished off some greeblies (after greeblie shopping) and mounted the lights.

One of the lights I had mounted wasn't working too often so I had to remove it after. Kind of a pain but I got it out. Also the lights came with the UK style plug so I had to cut it and splice it to an extension cord.

Here is a video of it in action:





And a couple pics. One with flash, one without.

Medal for Han

I just agot a casting of a Medal of Yavin (from A New Hope) .., and the proper ribbon so I cleaned it up a bit, painted it with some leftover Threepio gold, mounted it and hung it on Han.

Flux Capacitor Housing..almost done...

I painted the box, cut the plexiglass..mounted it with rubber molding, and creatively mounted the latches and hinges. The screws I mounted by drilling a smaller hole then feeding the screws through to thread the aluminum walls a bit, the removing the screws and clipping them short so I don't have ugly screws poking through. I then covered the opening with soem JB Weld and painted it to match the rest so they just look like bumps..

The hinge was tricky..I didn't have the extra lip at that side I needed, but with some nuts as spacers I got it mounted. It's not perfect, but it works and you won't really see them from behind anyways.

I painted a couple of PVC elbows (lighter than actual metal ones) and have them glued in place now (well glue needs to dry for 24 hours...). I plan to make use of one of them to runt the power wire from the lights to an outlet. I hate to have an ugly cord hanging out of it..but no choice.

I didn't have a label maker so I found the correct font online and printed the labels to the right size...then glued them on. They don't have raised letters..but thats a minor detail.

Here is a pic of the "real" one from the movie:



And here is mine:



Once the lights arrive I can work on the internals! :)

New project..about the size of a breadbox.

Any guesses as to what I am making? I have all the hardware and greeblies in the works...this was the hard part..the main box. The real one used in the 'movie' is available but very expensive. Seems like ppl use similar boxes..but even those were expensive so I drew up layouts based on the real one and had this made up.