Teenage Tech Builder’s Tutorial on How to Build a Life-Size Smartphone Controlled BB-8 Droid
17-year-old tech builder Angelo Casimiro from the Phillipines has created a marvelous step-by-step tutorial on how to build a life-size BB-8 droid that can be controlled with your smartphone. The entire tutorial is available to view on Instructables.
One of my dad's hobby is being a toy collector (Hot Toys, Enterbay & Etc..). He grew up watching movies from the 80's, including Starwars! He is a really huge Starwars fan. When the Sphero BB8 was announced, he wanted it so badly! The Sphero toy cost $150 online, $210 in our country (Philippines), not to mention that they ran out of stock easily! It's not the typical toy that you would buy impulsively. Knowing with my past experience in building robots, I figured I could build a life-sized version of the Sphero BB8 for less than $100. I also saw this as an opportunity to spend some father-and-son time with him. This is what we ended up building in the week of Christmas! Anyway, my mom and I also got him a Sphero BB8 and used it as our reference for building this project. For him I guess, the best gift was the time we spent building it together.
A photo posted by Angelo Casimiro ???? (@angelocasi) on Jan 22, 2016 at 3:35am PST
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