Its Tuesday....Front Logics and Power Distribution Board

Well the mailbox was full of some excellent R2-D2 parts I ordered a while ago.

First to be opened up was the Power Distribution Board made by Dan Stuettgen.

What this board does is allow many peripherals to be plugged in via one 12 volt battery. There are 2 9 volt connections for the PSIs, one 6 volt source for the remote control receiver and two 12 volt pass thrus. Those run at whatever the battery power source has (same volt/amps). This makes plugging into eletronics inside the dome a whole lot easier.





Below is the Front Logic Displays

Now I already had these from a run Tim had done several years ago. But these were recently re-designed as a one-piece unit. Doug also included hardware for mounting these to the Front Logic Displays they offered several months ago.

As you can see from the pictures, the "curve" of this piece is really slick.

Once I have the dome sanded and "shiney" to the point I'm happy, then I can start installing all this great hardware inside.

Pocket Vents arrived!

A new post, alas!

I put some money aside for more R2 parts. Daniel over to DroidStuff.Com is offering some great R2 Parts. Many of the R2-D2 Builders are cramming to finish their R2-D2s before the big convention, Celebration IV in L.A. this spring. (I wish I could go but its quite expensive to fly out there, rent a hotel, bring a robot, time off from work, etc etc.)

Daniel's machine shop is producing aluminum parts that look great. He has several other items I'd love to get but first things first.

Here are the "Pocket Vents"....minimal assembly, just bolt the back plate on. Included were some tabs that go on each side, which can be used to mounting onto R2's skin. All I really have left to do is paint the back plate blue.

It looks pretty good fit into the skin. The only issues I've noticed is that I'll have to file down the back of the pocket vent some. That box shape needs to be filed just a tad. I'm wondering if that will make the "curve" of the vent match the skin a bit better once its flush. We'll see!