Armageddon Expo for Melbourne Robot Workshop & Hackerspace

[Dayle Hemsley]

Hi all.

 

Armageddon will be the next event for our group collaboration.

 

October 13 & 14 Melbourne Exhibition Centre. This is in 3 months.

 

I want to start organizing this as early as possible so any members from both clubs who are interested in attending and helping out with booth manning and supplying projects please let myself or Andy know ASAP.

 

We will need.

 

Hackerspace artwork, ie, posters, flyers, handouts.

Projects for display, robots and a working 3D printer.

 

R2 Builders club posters and handouts.

Melbourne Robot Workshop posters.

Jason's R2 and my K-9 should be on hand.

Adam may have more of his work done on his Gold R2 unit.

 

 

Allan, is it possible to get your TARDIS over from Brisbane or construct a new one in this time frame?  

 

Any Sydney members interested in coming down to help let me know ASAP.

 

I am not sure if we can get free booth space as a non profit group, it may be we need to pay for this. From what I understand Armageddon may cover our insurance. This all needs to be checked. We will need electrical power, if we can set up the same as Comic Con next to the 501st we may be able to share costs for this with their club. We probably should be next to the 501st as well.

 

Armageddon will need to advise us of these issues when they can.

 

Cheers

 

Dayle

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Russel]

Hi Dayle,

Is it possible to get some build info on your K9? This is the next build project on my list. I have done the usual googly searches but decent plans seem few and far between.

I'm not looking for 100% screen accuracy (which version anyway??) but would like to get the proportions right.

cheers

Peter (AKA OscarFox)

On 8/07/2012 10:25 AM, Dayle Hemsley wrote:

Hi all.

 

Armageddon will be the next event for our group collaboration.

 

October 13 & 14 Melbourne Exhibition Centre. This is in 3 months.

 

[Dayle Hemsley]

Hi Peter

 

A good place to start is to join our sister group "The Sydney Robot Workshop" website, you can access some plans on there.

http://sydneyrobotworkshop.com

 

 

Also I suggest you join our R2 Builders Club Australia.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/r2buildersclub/

 

The Melbourne/Sydney Robot Workshops are basically all R2 Club members but who also build other TV and Film related bots.

Join up both these groups and you will have access to a few K-9 builders in Australia and overseas. Dave Everett, myself and Izzy and a couple of others have all completed or are currently building a K-9'

 

Izzy's blog is very good and has loads of links, Izzy is an R2 Club member in Tasmania.

http://izzy-k9.blogspot.com.au/2007/06/background.html

 

Andrew Shwartz is another R2 member with K-9 info.

http://astromechbuilder.com/mechloader/v/R7Dude/K9

 

And of course you need to join the K-9 Builders Guild.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thek9buildersguild/

 

 

Most of us based our K-9 on the lespaceplie plans and extrapolated.

 

Considering there are 5 marks (models) and several versions of each there are differences between each individual unit.

 

Mine is Sarah Jane's Mark III. For example mine has the 3 handles and is Blue not Grey.

 

Dave and I can tell you were to get parts such as the panel lights ( Japan ), tartan for the collar ( Scotland - must be correct ) the sucker for the probe ( Sydney)

 

The probe is a small electric antenna from a small car like an MG or mini, the ears need to be handcrafted with mesh and wire and solder.

 

The tail itself is again an aerial with a crafted loop at the end. The blaster in mine is machine lathed with a red laser pointer. Dave and I have about 20 tracks of K-9 audio already available as mp3 files.

 

I have 2 spare tail boots, I would be willing to part with one. These are from a 70's Mini Cooper steering rack. 

 

Mine has an LCD monitor panel that plays the medical oscillisope videos like the 80's K-9. I just stripped an LCD panel with a USB and edited up in Final Cut Pro some medical vision video backgrounds available online and put them on a USB stick.

 

Anyway, we can tell you all of the minor and inner workings stuff very easily. ( On saying that Andy has given me some info and help on some mods I would like to undertake in regard to my K-9's interactivtiy ability )

 

You can go the styrene flat pack version, build in steel or wood ( I chose the wood as it how the originals were predominately made ) And wood is way more easy to craft than steel and is stronger than styrene.

 

THE HARDEST PART IS THE FLEXI NECK PIECE.....on that everyone agrees!

 

So jump in mate, you will have plenty of help and resources available.

 

What I did first was to collect as much info as possible and watch heaps of K-9 vids to check all the variances out and then I made a decision to go with one and stuck to it.

 

Hope all this helps a bit.

 

Cheers

 

Dayle

Melbourne Robot Workshop

R2 Builders Club Australia

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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