The speelgoedversie of the BB-8-droid from the upcoming Star Wars movie The Force Awakens, is taken apart by the engineers to see how he works. The little droid makes use of a magnet and a gyroscope to keep his balance.
Because the BB-8 is not referred to by users to be opened, had the people of UBreakIFix with a small circular saw, the ball of the droid to blows. What remains is a skeleton of the ball can be achieved. The bottom has the droid, two wheels for propulsion, and a weight so that the wheels always grip. At the top, on a stem is a magnet. That ensures that the ‘head’ of the droid never too far along the ball down bags.
In the middle of the skeleton is the electronics where UBreakIFix not to her. The droid is able thereby to receive commands from a smartphone app. Users can the droid control gestures such as ‘yes’ and ‘no’, and he can be a message to project, just like R2-D2 did in A New Hope. The projection is, however, only to see the screen of your smartphone, making it an augmented reality trick instead of a real projection.
The BB-8 is on the website of the maker, Nodular. The company is counting 149,99 $ for, and $ 25 shipping. Including vat comes at the time of this writing, on converted 190 euros. The droid is very popular, and Graphite is expected only in October.
In The Force Awakens, in december, in a premiere, the filmmakers have a real droid BB-8. Initially it was going to just cgi, but since technically it should be possible for such a droid to build, and for the actors it is easier, Disney has chosen to be a ‘real’ BB-8 to build. Two Star Wars fans from Spain have set up a web site with their best theory of how the real BB-8 on the set of the film.
