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The making of a R2D2 clone
Howard_Casto:
--- Quote from: patrickl on March 17, 2010, 09:20:34 am ---Wow, that R2D2 costume is seriously cool 8)
Or are people then just being polite because the builder himself is also reading?
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Well I never had the problem... always happy to tear a crappy cab a new one, but I think you hit the nail on the head. In not saying that everyone's cab is bad, but the law of averages makes it impossible for every cab to be good. So if you are seeing each cab as getting a standing ovation then one could assume..... I'm just saying.....
Howard_Casto:
--- Quote from: pinballjim on March 17, 2010, 10:07:10 am ---
--- Quote from: Vanguard on March 17, 2010, 09:53:15 am ---I don't think he's overdoing it. I also think building an R2 is probably much harder than building a cabinet. There is some real engineering going on with building a drive system and building the electronics.
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Bolting a trash can to a remote control car? C'mon, don't overthink this.
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Bill Maher's newest standup special comes into mind when people flame you for this.
"But I'm not wrong!....."
It's a little more complicated than what you are saying, but honestly not much.... a motor goes in each back foot..... standard off-the-shelf rc innards. The dome might be hard to get moving smoothly, but that is the only difficulty I could forsee. And while I haven't built an r2, I've built things like him in my youth, so I don't think I'm being flippant and dismissive when I say it. When a dumb little turd like myself can make rc stuff when he's 10-12 then it isn't THAT difficult.
Now I honestly don't know... the guy could have built the electroincs by hand, and that would be impressive, but considering they sell kits for popular bots like this then that probably isn't the case.
There's no doubt it's harder than building a cabinet, but then again we are comparing apples (woodworking) to oranges (machine work/ electronics) so if you want to make that leap then I'll go with you. But keep in mind nobody compared it to building a cabinet except you vanguard. ;)
boykster:
I think its a cool, very detailed and obviously well thought out build. Would I put that much time and effort into an R2? Probably not.
eclipso:
More power to them, I think that is absolutly amazing and I am impressed.
patrickl:
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on March 19, 2010, 12:42:46 am ---
--- Quote from: patrickl on March 17, 2010, 09:20:34 am ---Wow, that R2D2 costume is seriously cool 8)
Or are people then just being polite because the builder himself is also reading?
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Well I never had the problem... always happy to tear a crappy cab a new one, but I think you hit the nail on the head. In not saying that everyone's cab is bad, but the law of averages makes it impossible for every cab to be good. So if you are seeing each cab as getting a standing ovation then one could assume..... I'm just saying.....
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I'm more talking about the cabs where the builder is pushing the envelope. Using "insane" constructs that are indeed absolutely unnecessary for a cab that is supposed to mimic the feel of a mass produced cheaply build arcade cabinet. Yet everyone is cheering about these ideas.
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