Here's droid #2 without the backplate...looking at the utility arms (spare resins versions I used to test the blue paint formula), you can see inside the droid.
Now you can see the back plate, painted black, is mounted inside...
This blog tracks and displays my R2-D2 building progress! Made almost entirely of aluminum, the goal is to build an autonomous, PC powered robot that will "act" like the R2-D2 we all know from the movies!
Here's droid #2 without the backplate...looking at the utility arms (spare resins versions I used to test the blue paint formula), you can see inside the droid.