This character of Star War R2D2 becomes inspiration to people to learning robotics. The following instructions can help you in making your own droid and make your dream droid come true. After two years of working in making the famous R2D2 replica in two years, finally a full size replica of R2D2 have been made which look like the real one. In making the replica it was helped by all over the world fans of R2D2 in creating the plan and components. This final replica is made from aluminum, but it can also use wood or plastic. This replica sizes three feet tall. The challenge comes in making this replica move just like the real one. This project is done with basics on engineering, mechanical skill, electronic, and painting. The weakness in this replica can be seen from its badly design, heavy, sort of stress and structural problem from below up above. A large powerful motor needed to make this robot move. To drive the motor it takes speed controllers and batteries with large capacity.
This droid replica takes several components like drive system (Drive Motors: NPC Robotics – 2212 and Drive Controller: RoboteQ AX3500), dome rotation (Dome Rotation Motor: Pittman 9000 series and Dome Controller: RoboteQ AX500), lights and sound, remote control, batteries (Batteries: 2 X 12V SLAs (18AH ea.), and many more components in making the replica as well as the real one look like. For the wiring here is the PDF files of the wiring system used in this robot. The red color is the front charging port. Yellow is the wiring harness and blue is the rear electrical panel contains the speed controllers, fuse block, battery monitor and power distribution board.
For complete information on this making the replica of R2D2 you can go to www.artoo-detoo.net or RoboteQ.