James' R5-D4

As mentioned in my previous post, Monday saw me start on drawing/creating the ‘Bad Motivator’ as i saw it in the movie, screen grab. See bel...

March 2022 Planning out the electronics/electrical connections etc. This has been the most concentrated effort of work to get things ready f...

*** SPOILER ALERT!!! *** The Book of Boba Fett *** DO NOT SCROLL DOWN ANY FURTHER ***  ***** **** *** ** * Sat down to watch Episode 5 of T...

I did some design changes and re-printed off a new holder. This one fitted much better all round. I had made slots in the inside top face ...

Drew up a holder in AutoCAD Inventor and printed off a sample. This was slightly tighter than it should of been, on the inside faces, s...

Last year I was working on an upgrade to the bad motivator system, in that I replaced the e-cig atomiser with a small vape tank. The reason ...

Just posted up on Thingiverse my dual smoke bracket that I drew up and printed off for testing, before Christmas. Link also to t...

It's been a while since my last update, but I have been busy. I've drilled and tapped the slide so that the 'motivator' ca...

So it was back to re-designing the pivot arm and linkage points. I first used a piece of cardboard to gauge the distance after I took phot...

After printing out the actuator bracket re-design, I found out that I actually had less space than I thought and that the rear of the actuat...

Ive had to do a few more re-designs on the motivator's activator bracket & pivot pieces. This is all new to me and although I sort o...

One of the thngs that bugged me was trying to solder the wires up inside the e-cig unit. It was never 100% successful with weak joints, dry ...

R5's pop up 'Motivator' system, was deactivated last year for an 'event'. Although the linkage used to lift the motivato...

Started this the beginning of the month: With the new lazy susan planned, I started also looking at the frame work inside R5's dome. ...

For the life of me I can't remember if I've actually tested R5's 'Bad Motivator' whilst his head has been connected to h...

The internal walls of the motivator pie hole need some work done on them. So cut up some circuit board and shaped them a bit. Keeping it si...

So I was happy that the pop-up motivator system working, but not really with them ended both at the same time. As, well, in the film, after...

.......sorted out the Motivator to lower back down after being activated......here's a VERY short video. I fitted a simple rubber ba...

Installation Time! Got home last night and started on fixing the electronics board into position. But soon realised that this position was...

Last night I trimmed board down the board so it can fit in this position. Will have to reposition the timer relay. Dome wires previou...