My Journey Begins

My son had started to play angry birds space and was starting to get interested in star wars, and I'd just seen an inflatable remote control R2D2 and thought "I want one".

So I thought I could pretend I was buying it for him and secretly just play with it myself...

MWAH HA HA HA HAAAA...

HA...

sorry. Anyhoo, I bought myself him one, and he loved it.. but then told me he wanted a real one (and to be honest I've always fancied having a go at making an R2D2, although I never thought I actually could make anything that looked anything like a real one), so I started investigating and found http://astromech.net/ and the R2D2 builders group. And there my journey began.