R2Duino
** UNDER CONSTRUCTION **
Use an Arduino robot car kit such as the following:
to run a low-cost* operational R2D2 like:
To do this, robot car parts will be "transplanted" into the R2D2
body: | and feet: |
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*total cost of 3/4 size R2D2 was ~ $100 USD, depending on options
Version History
Version 1.22.7 7/22/22 basic version working (motors, head rotation)
Links
- Robot car kit, example kit that has nearly all the necessary parts
- Head servo, stronger servo needed for R2D2 head rotation (only 1 needed)
- Swivel caster, example (only 1 needed)
- AdaFruit SoundFX, different configurations available
- AdaFruit SoundFX lib
- Bluetooth basics
- Controller pairing with Arduino
- Arduino IDE, R2Duino was tested with version 1.8.19