Chunk[501st] Posted April 13, 2010 Report Posted April 13, 2010 This is gonna look bad @$$ when it's done. I've been following it over on the main 501st forums Quote
Alex Buechel Posted April 13, 2010 Report Posted April 13, 2010 This is gonna look bad @$$ when it's done. I've been following it over on the main 501st forums Main 501 forums? Quote
LaunchPad Posted July 30, 2010 Author Report Posted July 30, 2010 Have still been on it a little at a time. No pics yet, soon though. Thanks for the continued interest. I can't wait. Still no leg movement though. It's always $ and this project comes last according to the other half Thank Mathew Quote
Darth Hilarious Posted January 13, 2011 Report Posted January 13, 2011 Bump! Any more progress? This thing is AMAZING! Quote
seantrooper[TK] Posted January 13, 2011 Report Posted January 13, 2011 WOW! How did I not see this before PURE AWESOME!!!!! Quote
Spectre Posted January 10, 2012 Report Posted January 10, 2012 Bump...? Bloody awesome work mate, absolutely sensational. Quote
bigtrev503 Posted March 24, 2015 Report Posted March 24, 2015 I'd love to see an updat on this! Quote
Dday[501st] Posted March 24, 2015 Report Posted March 24, 2015 I'd love to see an updat on this! He hasn't been online since April 2012... so I'm thinking it's stalled. Quote
Dday[501st] Posted March 24, 2015 Report Posted March 24, 2015 So this is the most detailed pick of one I could find, from what I understand, this is only a model and does not function (Move).I know according to Wookipidia they are exactly 6' tall so my work is the one in this pic scaled at 2.71 from a poster size I had made. The following is the begginning of the drawing process. Afterwards these were drawn in coreldraw and autocad 2006 for machining of the main leg parts. So I finally got my sets of armor complete where I like them and could troop anytime. As a mechanical engineer, when I chose this I knew I would be in a field I would have to learn on my own, electrical engineering yuk, but not too horrible. The following oic started last oct when our movers still had our stuff so I scaled a life size one to past the time. I then proceeded to gather parts in town and on the net to meet the requirements for a self autonomized Droideka. Yes mobile. No rolling uo into a ball just yet. Maye once I'm over the mound of trouble with walking Vs Balance with three legs. The main legs are prototyped out of foam, bondo, and magic sculpt. The main body is layered fiberglass cloth and matting in layer totalling a 0.25 in thickness. The 18" diameter plastic sphere was layered in sections, then areas were removed so the structure would still be stable' MModing and scaling the lower soins guts are proving to be very difficult but not impossible. This was where I stopped last week. Since then I have started putting together the gears for shoulder movement in the legs which does consist of all directions. Everyone was making R2, so I wanted to build a functional droideka, not RC, but with a TechFX micro controller and Pololu motor controllers. Further update as this starts to come together more. Let me knoiw what you think. I haven't posted in awhile as right after the move I began this secret project. Muhahahah. lol Mathew Or at least stalled for updates to us. Quote
Mutter Posted March 24, 2015 Report Posted March 24, 2015 Are you frickin' kidding me?! Dude, this thing is amazing! Quote
SidGi3 Posted February 24, 2016 Report Posted February 24, 2016 Did you ever finish this? Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G900A using Tapatalk Quote
Topgun[TK] Posted February 27, 2016 Report Posted February 27, 2016 I want to see where he got on this! Quote
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