Well WonderCon is done for another year. Lots of fun, good company, tons of photos taken and a full builders panel again.
I think this was the largest builders turn-out we’ve ever had at WonderCon, by my count there were at least 6 droids and 10 builders in attendance.
No major problems to report, nobody lost any parts, screws or having a droid die half way around the show floor. Although Max’s drive system was making some funny noises by late Sunday, and I did manage to break a door panel off but was quickly fixed in time for the panel.
Here’s some highlights, starting off with the obligatory cute kids. The Jawa is the son of fellow builder Ryan Goff, and he did a great job hamming it up for the crowds.
Gerard did what we be believe was his first interview, the guy was from SiriusXM and was more of a geek than us and asked all the right questions. From the look of it the Geeman enjoyed it!
Looks like Matt also enjoyed showing off his droid
And bumped into a few strange characters along the way
Johnathan played the perfect droid security guard, sporting his new shirt. Can’t wait for the run of these!
But was pretty surprised at the price of pizza the convention center.
Here’s some of my fav costumes/characters
As usual more photos in the gallery.
Here’s some photos from this years RoboGames, which is held annual in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Big thanks to Matt Mccormick and his me with Artoo at the end of the day.
Notice the thing around my neck? I won the Gold medal in the art bot category.
In the pits
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We had a real good showing at WonderCon this year, with at least 6 builders in attendance, and 4 droids.
Here’s some of us after the Builders panel: Steve, Me, Don B, Tiny and Gerard
The panel was a huge success, with standing room only – I think it helped that we had Don Bies on the panel this year 🙂
We also got to meet Mike from TotallyWired, and saw some of the new parts he’s been developing.
Here’s some of my favorite shots from the day
R2 even did a couple of interviews thru the day
As always additional photos in the gallery.
Big thanks to the 501st and my fellow builders for helping throughout the day, and to Don Bies for joining us on the panel.
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I finally uploaded the photos from the last MakeSF Meetup I attended with Artoo. It was held at the Instructables.com HQ in San Francisco, and we had a pretty good turn out for a cold December evening.
MakeSF, is loosely associate with the Make Magazine / Maker Faire folks, and attended by a wide range of geeks, artists and engineer types from all over the Bay Area, who share projects they’re working on, skills and local resources. The events are always fun and you never know who’s going to be there or presenting.
I really enjoy taking Artoo apart and showing how he works
Typically at these events people stay in their seats, but It’s not only kids that can’t help swarming Artoo – We’re in there somewhere 🙂
Big thanks to fellow Makers for allowing me to share their photos.
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We’re all loaded and ready to head out to WonderCon 🙂
Hope to see you at the Droid panel on Saturday.
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WonderCon starts this Friday in San Francisco – Gerard, Steve, Tiny and I will be there with our droids and we’ll be hosting another builders panel.
It was a year ago that I first met Steve at WonderCon and got him hooked on droid building – he’ll be debuting R2-XS.
StarWars.com has also posted a run down on all things SW that will be happening that weekend, and it looks to be a busy one, with Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Daniel Logan, Ray Park and Matthew Wood will be there signing autographs.
Our panel is on Saturday at 12:30pm in room 236/238. If you’re planning on attending, please let me know or stop on by and say hi.
R2-D2 Droid Building Basics— Chris James, Ryan Goff, and Steve Simmons share their experiences and demonstrate working droids. Topics range from materials, tools needed, basic electronics, and radio control information to make your own R2 come to life! Special guest Don Bies, former ILM modelmaker and Star Wars Episodes 2 and 3 droid wrangler.
The full programming schedule is now online here.
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