John Stear's original R2-D2 engineering manual from 1977's Star Wars ANH

[OpenR2]

After spending a few days with the original John Stears' R2 Robot Manual, progress has been made with identifying elusive components that have been unable to be identified to date.

We've been able to identified the model numbers of the RC servos, the leg drop solenoid, and the motor responsible for steering the MKII center foot.

Here is a link to an article we put together that reorganizes the content in the engineering manual by subsystem...

Forensic Archaeology - John Stears' Robot Manual

 

[Halliwax]

This is wicked! Did you share it on astromech?

 

[OpenR2]

This is wicked! Did you share it on astromech?

The link to the article was shared on…

The Replica Prop Forum website
The OpenR2 website
The OpenR2 Facebook page
Mr Baddely 3DPrinted Droid Facebook page

 

[Vagabond Elf]

Fascinating! I'd not realised the original r/c R2-D2 couldn't go backwards.

 

[OpenR2]

Fascinating! I'd not realised the original r/c R2-D2 couldn't go backwards.

And its head did not turn. And of course it’s was only a leg drop.