R2-D2 Trashcan

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By Sean Michael Ragan
Posted 2011/05/12 @ 10:30 pm
Category Craft, Home, Robotics

Not much information on this one. Would love to know who made it and how. [Reddit via Boing Boing.]

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BY Sean Michael Ragan

I am descended from 5,000 generations of tool-using primates. Also, I went to college and stuff. I write for MAKE, serve as Technical Editor for MAKE magazine, and develop original DIY content for Make: Projects.

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4 Responses to R2-D2 Trashcan

Anonymous on May 13th, 2011 at 4:43 pm said:

Sadly, my collection guys would just destroy it as fast as they could. Unless, of course, one of the stoned scrappers grabbed first it thinking it was actually metal.

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- Wayne Dancer on May 13th, 2011 at 4:52 pm said:
  
  Same here, it would only take 2 or 3 collections to look like it was in the Jawas’ Sandcrawler.
  
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Anonymous on May 13th, 2011 at 5:21 pm said:

Well, hmm… What if you offered to paint the trash truck to appear like a sandcrawler?

Sigh, they’ll never go for it.

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