Advice Need For Hasbro R2-D2 Hack
Hey guys. Hope everyone is cool.
I’m looking to start a new project and need a quick bit of advice and/or information from anyone who has hacked a Hasbro 2002 R2-D2 Interactive Astromech Droid (the voice activated one with beverage holder).
I managed to score one off eBay for my girlfriends granddaughter, got it for a good price and it’s in full working order, but with it using 16 year old voice recognition hardware/software, voice commands are a bit hot and miss (mostly miss, lol). So I’m thinking about doing an EZ-B hack with her.
I haven’t taken a screwdriver to it yet so it’s still in one piece, so...
Q1: what I wanted to ask, was about the original drive motors which I would like to use. Has anyone who has hacked one or these R2’s used the original drive motors, and if so how did you connect them to the EZ-B (what type of H-Bridge/motor controller did you use)?
Q2: I want to run the EZ-B and droid off a 7.4v LiPo so I also need to know what the voltage of the original motors are rated for as well in case a need a second battery with matching voltage.
Any help or advice anyone can offer would be a great help.
Thanks guys. 
That’s great. Thanks for that DJ. No kidding it’s a long list, lol... but a good one.
Going to start a showcase thread soon. Pretty much completed the dome with new RGB LED’s, couple of sound sensors, light sensor... and of course, the all important camera.
So far it’s been fun and glad I’ve got my hands dirty again. I’ve missed robot building.
steve G
looking forwart to see your r2d2 in action.
Thanks Patrick. Yeah this should be a fun little build.
Just started a project showcase for this lil guy.
Hasbro R2-D2 Project Showcase
This page has been moved or is no longer available. Please look around the ez-robot.com website to see if it's been moved. Otherwise, you can always Contact Us if you're looking for something specific. NOOO ! I was looking forward to this. I got my operating table ready and a pc to use with it and starting a list of what is needed to stat rebuilding R2 .
Hello @harunobumadarame
The page you are looking for is the page that you made a comment on, project showcases stayed on the Sythiam site. That's just an old link that didn't get redirected back to Synthiam for some reason.