James' R5-D4

December 18th continued : Thursday after work, I set up the Tevo printer to print off the upper body section, hopefully from the point it st...

 A week ago I had to drop my daughter off at a dance lesson, with an hour to kill I had a walk around the local shops. Mostly charity ones, ...

3D Printing: March I needed another way to operate the claw. The bowden tube idea using a metal guitar string, wasn’t working well enough 😢...

Just a small post, this refers to the Claw activation. It’s been a while, as have been working on a major side project and forgot to mention...

November Friday 4th 2022 The start of another droid, but not another Astromech. Something that there aren’t many of, especially here in the ...

October 1st Back at the beginning of the month, before I fitted the remote control, inside my transmitter, I had thought about utilising the...

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...

June 2021 Decided (last month May) that I was going to be the start of getting R5's 'Bad Motivator' …….back installed again. It ...

Eventually 👍 got round to uploading not one but two versions of the front part of the holoprojector. One with a 'lens' and one with...

 I wanted a display stand for my 26mm O/D pin badges. This one was my first test print but second design idea. This stand has printed holes ...

3D printing in progress.... 9hrs 40mins to print. No supports underneath as didn’t want to waste filament, see below for underside pictures....

Back in..... May 7th 2021 ..... Dug out the laptop and got playing with the Pololu servo controller program...... then had a refresh look at...

Finished these both off with Velcro attached to the straps. Half hours worth of stitching by hand, sees both surfaces of the Velcro attached...

Here’s the new ‘red’ Booster cover fitted on R5. Just the ankle cylinder colours to change. These I think I'll just change by applying r...

A while back I posted up that I had designed a clip moun t remote control fob holder  for R5’s ‘Bad Motivator’. The idea being that it could...