Dyne's LD-F1 (D-O concept) build

[Dyne]

Just saw the thread, looks like a fun build  

I was wondering for scale maybe looking at the antenna compared to other antennae?  Or the wires, like the coil compared to wires like in D-O?

So far it is fun, though the neck is giving me fits. I have a post about that being drafted right now.

I'd have to go measure to be sure, but from memory I think the coiled wires that I have lying around (mostly from 12V car cigarette adapters) looked like they have coils roughly a half inch in diameter. I'm not going to go pixel counting the concept art, but to my eye it looks like those coils could plausibly be 1/16th of the height of the neck.

I wonder if about D-O's height in the first position before the section of the base lifts the head higher?  So maybe fully raised about BB-8's size - but far less massive?

That sounds about right.  D-O is about 18 inches tall according to Wookieepedia.  If you ignore the slanted section of the diagram above, you get 4 + 8 + 4.5, or 16.5 inches tall. I'm still playing around so this could vary, but probably not by a huge amount.



In vaguely build-related news, I FINALLY have a solution (?) for my printing woes.  

One reason I haven't been very active for awhile is because at some point last summer, I ended up abandoning use of my new FDM printer's heat bed (which meant I could only use PLA, and even that tended to warp if the part was big enough) because it made all the lights flicker and wasn't great for the amount or type of stuff running on the same circuit.  At best, it was probably asking for the breaker to trip.  At worst, it could've been risking a fire.

I've since cleared some space in the garage and moved it there, where there's almost never anything else active on the circuit (including the lights) and it's unlikely to annoy anybody even if they were flickering.  There are drawbacks to this, but it's better than not printing at all.

With the reactivation of my printer, I've also resumed work on my R2 build.  This weekend was back-to-back dome printing.  I wrapped up the last main sections of the Baddeley dome yesterday and I'm working on the second ring and pie sections.  This is consuming most of my remaining PETG, so I ordered some more filament (including white PETG for builds like LD-F1, and some grey TPU for the belts.

I plonked the LD-F1 belt model in my slicer with the profile for my current flexible filament ... each one would apparently take over 40 hours to print and consume 284 meters of filament. Woof.