R2Steam2 Is R2D2 On Steam
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Thursday, 5 of February , 2009 at 4:38 am
Looks like it’s steam week (or something) here on BotJunkie… After posting about EATR and the Strenco ST-2, commenter “D” reminded us of the Steamworks section of Crabfu’s website. Among the multitude of steam powered tanks, walkers, rovers, centipedes, and just about everything else that you wouldn’t necessarily expect to be powered by toasted water is R2S2, a steam powered version of R2D2… Thanks to Robots-Dreams for the following video:
To make R2S2, Crabfu stripped the electronic guts out of a Hasbro R2D2 Interactive Droid and replaced them with a boiler and dual steam engines. The result is a radio controlled steam droid with 10 minutes of runtime and plenty of wood, brass, and leather seampunk accents.
There’s tons more steam driven bots on the Crabfu Steamworks website, and after the jump, take a look at an actual steam powered robot arm.
The base for this steam powered arm is an Armatron, which was powered with only one electric motor. The arm has six degrees of freedom, and a beautiful arrangement of gears and clutches that send power to different parts of the arm.
If you’ve come this far, you should definitely head over to Crabfu’s site to check out one other steambot: an R/C steam tank powered by a turbine.
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