Ghostbusters Project: Modifying the Clippard
One of the features on both the proton pack and the thrower (the "gun" if you will) on the Ghostbusters costume from 1984, is a Clippard Valve. It is appar
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Disaster, Recocery and moving along...
Last week, I took R2 out to a gaming/cosplay convention in Uppsala, Birdie Expo! Birdie is also one of very gracious sponsors of the VERY nice R2 Builders
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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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Almost faceplant, repairs and small upgrades...
I took R2 out a little while ago, since there was a huge Star Wars fan at work who was leaving the company, and I decided to bring R2 and make his day. On
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Octagon Volume Control part II
To continue from the last post , where I built the octagon volume control, It has now been installed in the droid. I replaced the hollow mesh aluminium pla
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First Ever R2 Builders Sweden Gathering!
This weekend marked the first ever R2 Builders Sweden gathering! We met up at Nixon's place, some had to travel further than others (think 600 kilometers,
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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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New Dome Logics installed
As the avid reader might have noticed, a while ago, I decided to upgrade my logic displays in the droid from just standard LED's to using fiber optics, som
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Upgrades and fixes..
A little while ago, I listed a number of things that was on my "to-do" list on R2 for this year. After starting to get some order in my workshop (if only b
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Domeworks, part II
On the 9th of April, I posted a lot about how I was fixing up my dome for the first time. I have, now and then put up posts of more work, but nothing has b
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Finally ... new panels!
After a long while of troubleshooting, I've finally managed to get the new panels working! It turned out that one of the panels was working all along, just
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Upgrades Galore!
Yes, it has been a while since I updated this blog with something useful. The exteriour of the droid has been finished for quite some time, and I still hav
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