Making BB8

BB8, the new Astromech Droid from Star Wars, The Force Awakens was a popular character from the second the droid appeared in a teaser trailer.  That popularity has only grown since and it’s inevitable that clever people would want to make their own.  Here’s a bunch of stuff on people making BB8.

First a video from Tested.

http://www.tested.com/starwars/557620-making-working-bb-8-droid-replica/

And post from Solidsmack

http://www.solidsmack.com/fabrication/plans-to-3d-print-your-own-star-wars-bb-8-just-became-open-source/

A post on how BB8 works.

http://www.howbb8works.com/

And this from a very talented young maker in the Phillipines.

 

http://www.tested.com/art/562386-take-20-minutes-watch-video/

H/T Adam Savage.