Ok, so I've been trying to post my blog entries from my Droid phone so that I could just snap the pictures with the phone and upload them directly. It also let me work without turning on a computer. However, earlier today, I wrote a very nice post about the demise of my prototype Mark I droid... here is what I can remember from that post:
My proof of concept droid crashed during the demo last week and the supports holding the battery pack in place fell off. I was sad for a moment (nobody wants to see their creations crash and burn like that), but I knew in advance that I would need to be rebuilding the body anyway, so I was good.
From that failed demo, I learned some very important things: 1) put the heavy battery pack near the bottom and as far forward as possible, 2) get a lower profile caster for the front wheel to reduce the amount of backwards tilt, and 3) never underestimate the power of coincidence.
Funnily enough, the power of coincidence ran high this week when I learned that my father, whilst trudging around at MegaCon, had purchased an old land line phone... in the shape of R2D2. As I was looking at it, I quickly realized that it was almost exactly the size that I had envisioned for my droid. So I quickly took up a ruler and pencil to measure all the vital tidbits of info that I could... and I also sketched out some specific layout... because pictures are 2D, it's possible I could have gotten my proportions all wrong going off the high res images from the interwebs. Now, I'm 99% confident about my information!
Rest in pieces, Mark I droid... your sacrifice will not be in vain,
Mark I droid
March 26th, 2011 - March 28th, 2011
(Click on the picture above to get the full size image if you wish to read my chicken scratches)
My proof of concept droid crashed during the demo last week and the supports holding the battery pack in place fell off. I was sad for a moment (nobody wants to see their creations crash and burn like that), but I knew in advance that I would need to be rebuilding the body anyway, so I was good.
From that failed demo, I learned some very important things: 1) put the heavy battery pack near the bottom and as far forward as possible, 2) get a lower profile caster for the front wheel to reduce the amount of backwards tilt, and 3) never underestimate the power of coincidence.
Funnily enough, the power of coincidence ran high this week when I learned that my father, whilst trudging around at MegaCon, had purchased an old land line phone... in the shape of R2D2. As I was looking at it, I quickly realized that it was almost exactly the size that I had envisioned for my droid. So I quickly took up a ruler and pencil to measure all the vital tidbits of info that I could... and I also sketched out some specific layout... because pictures are 2D, it's possible I could have gotten my proportions all wrong going off the high res images from the interwebs. Now, I'm 99% confident about my information!
Rest in pieces, Mark I droid... your sacrifice will not be in vain,
Mark I droid
March 26th, 2011 - March 28th, 2011
(Click on the picture above to get the full size image if you wish to read my chicken scratches)
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