Pacific NW R2 Builders Day

On October 27th several of the Northwest R2 Builders had an informal get together at Galaxy Hobby in Lynnwood.  Pictured above are (from left to right) Todd, Chris & Bob with their R2's

Another R2 builder Carol checking out Todd's R2 that is getting ready for motors and electronics.

Three R2's looking good.  Great thing about these events are sharing ideas and seeing better ways to do things.  I got a great idea from Todd's R2 that will help me with my arms (more later).  Also an excellent motivator to keep building or improving your droid!!

Star Wars Kinect Launch Party

R2 and I spent 4 days at Bellevue Square mall in the Microsoft store promoting the Star Wars Kinect launch.  What a wonderful time!  The store team was great to work with and the customers had a blast.  People just stopped dead in their tracks when they saw R2 and with the store staff talking with R2 and telling him where to go and what to do the effect was perfect!

R2 inspects the new xbox special edition.  Hmmmmm The paint job looks familiar...

R2 in the front of the Microsoft store.  This is a seriously beautiful place and R2 really liked the nice smooth and clean floors!

R2 inspecting the inventory. 

Thanks to the Microsoft Store and all the team members for having us!

Seattle Christian School

Seattle Christian school has a very new robotics program underway and we had the oportunity to go down for an assembly with the entire grade school to help promote it. 

 I had an operator so I got to interact with R2 as we talked about science, robotics and how I built R2

After the entire grade school was dismissed we got to meet with some of the robotics students for a more close up look at R2, was a very bright group of kids with great questions.

You have to love a principal who carries a lightsaber!!

Kinect All Access Video

The Microsoft Kinect All Access Episode 2 with my R2 is up on You Tube.

 

You can find it Here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZ4wypo3vUU

R2-D2 Guest Hosts XBox Live Kinect All Access

Wow, R2 and I had a great time as R2 was the guest host of XBox live Kinect All Access.  We traveled to Microsoft Studios for the filming.  Arriving early because of touchy weather (it was snowing) R2 hung out in the building lobby for a few hours greeting many wonderful Microsoft folks.  It was a great time and lots of fun.  We then got down to work on filming.

Kate Yeager Kinect All Access Host

Nic Fillingham Kinect All Access Host

Kate & Nic were very nice to R2 and we all had a lot of fun working in front of the camera.  R2 behaved himself very well and is definately not camera shy!!

Scott Elnes - Producer & Writer