Even Artoo got in on the act at Maker Faire and made his very own flip book with the help from Eddie at lightmoves.net. Check out the video

I’ve had a crazy couple of days at Maker Faire, and we still have one more day to go. I’ll be posting a full update and photos tomorrow, but just had to post this tonight.

We won a Maker Faire Editor’s Choice award for our creations and participation. This is a great honor and surprised considering the 100’s of cool Makers and their creations at the event.

Make Faire is a production of Make: Magazine, which the R2 Builders Club was featured in a few years ago, and is held every year in San Mateo, California, with in excess of 45,000 people in attendance.

Summary of work and posts for April 2008

• Holo Projector Servo Test
• Mounting Dome Electronics
• Slip ring servo board brackets
• A look inside the failed Pittman gearbox
• Slip Ring Servo Test
• New R2 Event Banner
• More WonderCon Videos
• Dead Pittman Motor
• Electrical System Update
• New Photos
• Lucile Packard Hospital Visit
• Slip Ring Spin Test
• New Battery Holder
• Slip Ring - Cutting the Frame
• Slip Ring Update
• Bay Area Builders T-Shirts
• Front Vent Surrounds Surround

I added some support brackets to the slip ring servo boards. Nothing fancy just a small piece of extruded aluminum with a few holes in it.

I made them slightly longer than the boards to allow extra holes for mount.

I’m busy getting ready for Makers Faire and printed off this vinyl banner yesterday for the booth at the event.

It’s approx. 36″ x 60″, and Artoo is almost full size. It’s based on graphic used at the last few SW Celebrations. Thanks Cory for giving me permission to use it.

I plan on making a stand out of PVC to mount it on.

And Gerard will have his tall C-4 banner there too.

Here’s a couple of new shots of me and Artoo

We finally got some t-shirts made for the local builders

There’s a bunch of builders blogs out there these days, and if you’re like me it’s hard to keep track of them all. Luckily we have RSS, but even then it’s hard to track down and enter all those addresses.

To help fix the problem I’ve created a consolidated RSS feed containing around 20 of the builders blogs I track that are focused on droid building. i.e. they post about building progress, techniques, R2 events etc. rather than lots of Off-Topic posts with a bit of building thrown in.

The new feed can be found here if you’d like to use it too, or drop me a message if you’d like your blog added

www.artoo-detoo.net/r2rss

I also highly recommend Google Reader for all your RSS reading needs.