Krest
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EEE PC is Asus' line of small PCs and netbooks – from before the days of Raspberry Pi and others
RF Link is a Radio Frequency Link – a wireless connection.
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EEE PC is Asus' line of small PCs and netbooks – from before the days of Raspberry Pi and others
RF Link is a Radio Frequency Link – a wireless connection.
Commander Fox
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So, according to that picture, the Webcam is plugged to a wireless device?
Darth Lars
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Eee PC on Wikipedia. It was pretty much the line of netbooks, when netbooks were popular.
Darth Lars
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Sphero is confirmed as the company who built the BB-8 on stage at Celebration.
I Want One!!!!!! BB8 Is Awesome
Looks like mvanwalks421 Called it!
awood12345
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colinloretz
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After seeing the footage, I went back and looked at how my sphero moves around and it makes a lot of sense now.
In an older story about Bob Iger and Sphero working together they mention Sphero and allude to a future Star Wars themed toy. http://www.cnbc.com/id/102089952
In an older story about Bob Iger and Sphero working together they mention Sphero and allude to a future Star Wars themed toy. http://www.cnbc.com/id/102089952
Riceball
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If that does end up happening and they create a working BB8 toy you know that lots of people will be buying them and taking them apart to see if the mechanisms inside can be scaled up to make a full sized BB8.
colinloretz
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Here are the innards. I'm going to try and make a tiny sphero-scaled of the BB-8. The shell does not open but nothing a little surgery can't fix.
http://www.howitworksdaily.com/how-the-sphero-works/
Now, out of a sw historians perspective it would be interesting to know what came first, the bb8 concept or Bob iger discovering the Sphero company.
BruceKenobi
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So the question was answered, no CGI....goes miles to make people realize not all the magic is born out of 1's and 0's. I see there was no magnet, but there was a rolling mechanism inside like AndyJ and Grenater first stated. I would buy one if the made it. Makes me think of what other wonders of the Star Wars universe could be done with the right contacts.
Cheers mates!
Cheers mates!
From how Kathleen said it, it sounds like they had the notion and when they were trying to figure out how to make it work, Bob found the folks who make Sphero -- or already knew them.
--Jonah
--Jonah
I'll be damned if the BB8 we saw was the one used in the first trailer.
The article in reference quotes KK saying that we saw the "red carpet BB8".
But maybe now we know what BB stands for
Darth Lars
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It originates from some old concept ideas for R2-D2, dating back to the 1970s.
Sure, it was most likely developed to work with Spheros concept.
... and then there is floating ball droid in ANH.
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Edwardowan
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I'll be damned if the BB8 we saw was the one used in the first trailer.
The article in reference quotes KK saying that we saw the "red carpet BB8".
But maybe now we know what BB stands for
ya, what we saw (the red carpet BB-8) would be what we would call the "hero" version. I'm sure there are stunt versions and of course some CGI being the head barely touches the body in the first teaser trailer.
Edwardowan
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Sphero 2.0 Peace Keeper edition (moves faster than a human can run)
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I so wish that hadn't been their April Fools joke a couple years back.
--Jonah
--Jonah
