It's funny how things like your job and responsibilities can get in the way with the important stuff like working on Artoo.
The drought in Texas is still on accompanied with several wildfires that have left 100's homeless. The constant days of 100+ degrees has made it hard to get any work on R2 done. The boys and I are still in the sanding stage as we are having to wet sand the dome and for some reason my wife does not think it is a good idea to do it in the house and it is just too hot to do it outside. In addition school has started adding to the schedule T-ball and cub scouts. We did have a small victory however... the Holoprojectors have arrived. The holoprojector is the part on R2's dome that projects the image of Leia in Episode 4 A New Hope where she gives the "Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi" message. There are a total of 3 HP's on the dome. These were machined out of Aluminum and Bob Consodine did an incredible job on them.
These will eventually be servo driven so each HP can be individually operated by a remote. There is also a hole in the back of each HP so a light and even a mini projector can be mounted inside.
All of the main lights in the dome including the PSI's and front and rear logic displays should be arriving this week though they are LED bulbs and circuit boards and the boys and I will have to solder everything though that is at least something we can do inside in the a.c.
