BUILDING R2-D2●

MICKE ASKERNÄS / THE BUILD JOURNAL

One part at a time.

Droids, props & the work that brings them to life.

204 entries · 2011—2026

2015

39 entries

Side speaker mount done!

Quick update. I drilled the metal brackets holding the new speakers, coated the inside of the "pockets" where the speakers will reside with black felt.. ..

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More Data Panel..

Will this never end? MORE on this data panel nonsense? Yes! Indeed! First the easy bit: I removed the 3d printed coupling once again, and superglued it in

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Data Panel!

So, A long long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.. I had temporarily mounted one of the inside panels of R2 with duct tape. The circuitboard was assemble

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Out doing charity work..

Before this weekend, I had to abandon the upgrades and mount everything that was not yet all finished back into R2. It was time to go for an outing! We (as

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Octagon Volume Control

Continuing on a previous post , I managed to do some more work into this. Basically, the process of cutting off the knob on the octagon port from the insid

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