So there was this spazzy, little droid.....

So Dan and I are having way too much fun with a completed droid to run around with.  But you guys wouldn't know anything about that since I haven't blogged about it!  So here it goes......

We have feet......

So now we need brains.......so the soldering begins.....

In pure Dan fashion, his brains needed to look a certain way too.  So he spent a lot of time planning out where everything would go on the board.  I have been told, in length, what everything does.  Do I remember any of it?  Nope.  But Dan insists it is easier than it looks and it is really not that difficult to build.  Uh huh...suuuuure.  

We had a clear board but it cracked.  I kinda like the blue though.

Speakers!  We actually hooked R2 up to our phones and listened to music.  Heehee.

Dan wanted to make sure the R2 had lots of power and easy access to said power.  So he has two batteries with the switch in the front behind one of his doors.  Easy switching from one battery to the other.

Braaaaiiiinnnsssssssss...........

With all these brains comes some serious computer programming.  We had a lot of help from some friends (I don't know if they want their names posted, but you know who you are!) and we couldn't have gotten R2 running without their help!

I wanted to post a video of R2's first steps (for those that haven't seen it on my facebook) but apparently Blogger has a limit on video size and I haven't figured out how to change that yet.  Yes, my computer skills are seriously lacking.  

Next up.....skins!!!!!!!!!

Every time we added something we said, "holy crap, he's really starting to look real!" and the skins really did that!  

 Now we just need a head.........

I am so very far behind

Hello, everyone!  And welcome to "Tiffany is a horrible blogger - part 2!"  I am so very far behind on this wonderful little blog I started about mine and Dan's R2 build.  So far behind in fact, that I don't even know where to begin to start to catch up.  So let me start by giving away a huge spoiler.  R2 is done!!!!  We debuted him at Megacon this past weekend and he was true to form being a spazzy and sassy little droid that couldn't keep still.  It was an absolute blast and we were so very depressed to see it end.  I will have a dedicated post just for Mega but for now let's get back to the nitty gritty stuff about the build.  

This is the point in the build where Dan just kinda...took off...and went build crazy.  So I didn't have a lot of "here, look at this" and explanations about what was going on, because everything was happening so fast.  I also am totally off now chronologically speaking so pics and things will most likely be totally out of whack (told you, I'm really bad at this!).  So I'll just post a bunch of pictures and hope it's self explanatory!  Ha!  I kid.  Even though I honestly have no idea what he is doing build wise, he knows every inch of this machine.  So if you have any questions at all, please feel free to drop me a line and I will pass it along.  In pure Dan fashion, he will explain every nook and cranny.  :)

Here's some pics of the foot motors and shells.  

I thought this was really cool.  Using spray cans to bend the styrine to the correct shape.

Did I mention we like bondo?

Hooray, feets!!!!  More to come soon.  And by soon, I actually mean soon.  I had some people at Mega ask me if we had a blog about the build, to which Dan responded by giving me super evil eyes, so I gotta get this baby back on track!  And I have lots of Mega pics to share.