Star Wars fan builds an Arduino-powered R4-P17 replica
Arduino Team — November 13th, 2017
Alejandro Clavijo, together with his father Jerónimo, spent two years building the first official fan-made model of the R4-P17 Star Wars droid. For those not familiar with this family of droids, R4-P17 was the robot companion to the young Obi-Wan Kenobi.
The replica is made of aluminum and wood, and runs on four Arduino boards. Impressively, the project has also been approved by Lucasfilm, the studio behind the saga, allowing Clavijo to bring it to official Star Wars events all over the world.
When not recreating Star Wars characters, Clavijo spends his days working as an engineer and has designed controls for “clean rooms” using Arduino Uno. You can see his design–made with CATIA–on Thingiverse.
We care about the privacy and personal data of our users.
To continue, please give us your consent:
Please confirm that you have read the privacy policy
Thank you for subscribing!
Curious to learn more?
Are you also a teacher, student, or professional that loves using Arduino in your day-to-day activities?
Then keep up-to-date with either our STEM or Professional monthly newsletters.
Arduino weekly newsletter (already subscribed)
Educators can benefit from the ever growing tech that shapes our environment through fun cool projects.
Why not awe your boss with highly innovative ways to help keep your enterprise connected at no extra cost?
Arduino Survey
We'd like to get to know you little better.
Please help us improve by answering this super short optional survey.
