My R2 made a short cameo appearance in a short film as part of the 2010 48hour film challenge that was run a few weeks back.
The film screened on C4 during the past week along with some other 'chosen ones'.
It's now up on the 48hour film website: http://www.v48hours.co.nz/screening-roo ... two-timer/ incase anyone wants to take a look.
R2 shows up at 4:11
The film has made the Auckland finals to be held at the Civic tomorrow night(Sat 8th May) so it's very possible R2 might make a guest appearance in Auckland city that evening. It could be a great laugh driving him down Queen street on a Saturday night....could end in tears too but ya don't know till ya try aye
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yeeearrrrgghhh!!! nice work really enjoyed the story, your R2 was awesome well done!
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Nice; a screen-used astromech! How'd that come about?
He looks good on screen, with all the electronics in full effect. I assume you're using a slip ring for the dome wiring, with that 360deg rotation?!
He looks good on screen, with all the electronics in full effect. I assume you're using a slip ring for the dome wiring, with that 360deg rotation?!
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That was awesome haha! Your Artoo looks very at home in front of the camera
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Thanks guys.
The films director joined the R2builders group not long before the event. He's just getting started on a scratch built R2.
He contacted me when he found that I was a local with a droid to see if I'd be happy to include R2 in the film if it worked with the genre they were given.
It was all a pretty spur of the moment thing. Took 2 takes and used the first one, then on to the next shot. They don't muck about when trying to put together a film in 48hours
Matt, I'm using a $5 phone detangler from dick smith as a slip ring. It works really well.
I have 4 cores of a cat5 cable running through a standard RJ11(phone handset plug) connector with 5vdc and 12vdc. It hasn't skipped a beat yet.
The films director joined the R2builders group not long before the event. He's just getting started on a scratch built R2.
He contacted me when he found that I was a local with a droid to see if I'd be happy to include R2 in the film if it worked with the genre they were given.
It was all a pretty spur of the moment thing. Took 2 takes and used the first one, then on to the next shot. They don't muck about when trying to put together a film in 48hours
Matt, I'm using a $5 phone detangler from dick smith as a slip ring. It works really well.
I have 4 cores of a cat5 cable running through a standard RJ11(phone handset plug) connector with 5vdc and 12vdc. It hasn't skipped a beat yet.
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Ah, that's brilliant. I went the route of putting limiter switches in mine.Bazzack wrote:...
Matt, I'm using a $5 phone detangler from dick smith as a slip ring. It works really well...
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I'm surprised how well it works.
The detangler is just a 4 contact slip ring with a different name at a much lower price than most slip rings, but I wasn't sure how well the small contacts would handle the voltage and amps required to run all those lights.
The detangler is just a 4 contact slip ring with a different name at a much lower price than most slip rings, but I wasn't sure how well the small contacts would handle the voltage and amps required to run all those lights.
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Well I did end up taking R2 to the 48h film Auckland finals. It was a great time and It was really good to get him out in some space to test out the drive train properly.
Here's a couple pics and a link to a youtube vid of some of the action. (i need to work out how the embed thing works)
Here's a couple pics and a link to a youtube vid of some of the action. (i need to work out how the embed thing works)
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Great video.Bazzack wrote:...Here's a couple pics and a link to a youtube vid of some of the action. (i need to work out how the embed thing works)...
Here's the embed (and code for it, for future reference)
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[youtube]2uC5TLJg1zQ[/youtube]
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I would literally be so excited if I saw Artoo rolling down Queen St that I would fall to the ground and have a seizure!!!