This Italian scooter has been completely revamped by fifth grade teacher Morgan, a Star Wars fanatic who spent countless hours cutting adhesive vinyl. No detail was spared, especially in the rear trunk where you can find many awesome retro style Star Wars stickers.
Instructables users and Star Wars fanatic mimaki cg60 initially wanted to transform his family’s old VW bus into a wooden creation of sorts, but then they finally found the droid they were looking for, and decided to go the R2-D2 route.
He managed to recreate all of the objects on the astromech, drew them up in Corel Draw, printed the vinyl wrap and spent a total of about 50-hours on the project.
Official Source: http://www.instructables.com/id/R2D2-VW-Bus/?ALLSTEPS
There are these keyboards, and then this Star Wars R2-Q5 virtual keyboard. While it may look similar to R2-D2, this mech was charged with storing the Emperor’s plans against the Rebel Alliance within its memory bank as well as being personally responsible for programming hyperspace co-ordinates directly into Emperor Palpatine’s shuttle during covert missions.
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„The gadget is shaped like a mini R2-Q5 unit, and projects a red QWERTY keyboard onto any flat surface, along with emitting the droid’s voice. It’s equipped with Bluetooth HID compatibility that works with iOS and Android mobile devices along with Windows and Mac OS X desktop applications,“ reports Hi Consumption.
Source: http://cdn.hiconsumption.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Star-Wars-R2-Q5-Virtual-Keyboard-1.jpg
It’s not as big or convoluted as Lego R2-D2, but this motorized astromech by Vimal Patel is really cool. Check it out in action:
