{"id":179935,"date":"2024-01-06T00:22:41","date_gmt":"2024-01-06T06:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/resourceful-guy-turns-his-vacuum-into-an-r2-d2-robot"},"modified":"2024-01-06T00:22:41","modified_gmt":"2024-01-06T06:22:41","slug":"resourceful-guy-turns-his-vacuum-into-an-r2-d2-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/resourceful-guy-turns-his-vacuum-into-an-r2-d2-robot","title":{"rendered":"Resourceful Guy Turns His Vacuum Into an R2-D2 Robot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tjVMInT5F_g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Finally, he used an oscillating fan to make the droid\u2019s domed head turn back and forth. Meanwhile, a Bluetooth speaker was inserted in the droid\u2019s body to play droid sounds as the robot moves.<\/p>\n<p>Since he could not faithfully recreate <a href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/innovation\/star-wars-fan-favorite-r2-d2-sells-2-76-million-auction\" title rel=\"dofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">R2-D2<\/a>, he called his invention R9-D9. That does not change the fact that all it takes is one look at it to know it\u2019s Star Wars-inspired.<\/p>\n<p>The project did not come without drawbacks. Hunter\u2019s vacuum can no longer clean under sofas or beds but it\u2019s a small price to pay to watch a Star Wars droid clean your house.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, he used an oscillating fan to make the droid\u2019s domed head turn back and forth. Meanwhile, a Bluetooth speaker was inserted in the droid\u2019s body to play droid sounds as the robot moves. Since he could not faithfully recreate R2-D2, he called his invention R9-D9. That does not change the fact that all it [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}