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A project log for Our own BB-8 droid

Getting ready for the premiere of the last Star Wars movie, I and my son are building a 3D printed BB-8 droid

enricoEnrico 07/10/2015 at 07:280 Comments

I have been thinking about the spherical structure strength.

The original idea was to screw the orange rings to the grey triangles blocking the white circles between them. Moreover the orange rings were also designed to be screwed to the white circles.

Now that I have the parts printed I'm not so sure the orange rings will be strong enough.

I'll go back to the design board and modify the inner parts to provide the sphere structure and reduce the orange ring to simple covering without structural functions.

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