{"id":757,"date":"2008-05-07T10:47:59","date_gmt":"2008-05-07T15:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/?p=757"},"modified":"2008-05-07T10:47:59","modified_gmt":"2008-05-07T15:47:59","slug":"i-want-an-r2-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/2008\/05\/07\/i-want-an-r2-unit\/","title":{"rendered":"I want an R2 Unit!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is an interview and video with a R2 builder at Maker Faire 2008. It looks amazing, and it looks like fun especially with the kids. <\/p>\n<p>I had a remote control one years ago, a much smaller early 80s version, and it&#8217;s funny that they mention voice controlled in this interview about the droid. My remote version was on the same frequency as my walkie talkie, and I could key up the mic on it and make sounds into the thing and the R2 unit would pick up on it and move. Hours of enjoyment for a Star Wars Freak.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/387947\/diy-r2+d2-is-even-better-than-the-real-thing\">Star Wars: DIY R2-D2 Is Even Better than the Real Thing<\/a>  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Chris James&#8217; R2-D2 won four Make Magazine editors&#8217; choice ribbons at Maker Faire and it&#8217;s easy to see why: not only does it have every detail from the original<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an interview and video with a R2 builder at Maker Faire 2008. It looks amazing, and it looks like fun especially with the kids. I had a remote control one years ago, a much smaller early 80s version, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/2008\/05\/07\/i-want-an-r2-unit\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[160,313,439,448],"class_list":["post-757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-droid","tag-maker-faire","tag-r2d2","tag-robot"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pe53l-cd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}