Alaina Hardie – I like dogs, robots, brains, and genomes.
Christopher Morton, Psy.D.
Search Alaina Hardie I like dogs, robots, brains, and genomes. Menu About me Search Search for: Close search Close Menu About me Categories 11" BB-8 prototype BB-8 robots Building BB-8 Part 2 – The Startening Post author By alaina Post date 1 January 2016 BB-8 presents some interesting engineering challenges. How do you get a robot that is basically a head balanced on a sphere to move around? How do you keep the head from falling off, and how do you move it independently from the ball? How can you make a ro
Nobody completely understands how the prop builders have made BB-8, so everybody who is building their own BB-8 is figuring it out themselves. The BB-8 Builders Club is collaborating on designs: everybody working independently (including me) is sharing what we learn. It’s open group prototyping, and it’s a fantastic way to work.
The Club’s best guess is that BB-8’s main “body” sphere is 50.6 cm in diameter, and the “head” hemisphere is about 30.0 cm in diameter. If you’re in the US, you can buy plastic hemispheres and spheres from California Quality Plastics ; a pair of 50 cm diameter hemispheres will set you about about $500 USD. That’s way too much for me to spend on a prototype, and a 50 cm diameter is pretty big to have sitting around the house. I decided to build my prototype inside something smaller and cheaper.
Alaina Hardie – I like dogs, robots, brains, and genomes.
Christopher Morton, Psy.D.