{"id":9523,"date":"2007-04-10T13:47:03","date_gmt":"2007-04-10T13:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=9523"},"modified":"2007-04-10T13:47:03","modified_gmt":"2007-04-10T13:47:03","slug":"steam-driven-stars-wars-droid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9523","title":{"rendered":"Steam-Driven Stars Wars Droid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/R2S2a.JPG\"><\/center> <\/p>\n<p> I think Jake von Slatt and I-Wei have a contest going to see who can post the most and coolest steampunky tech projects. We just blogged about I-Wei&#8217;s amazing <a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/modules.php?op=modload&#038;name=News&#038;file=article&#038;sid=1720&#038;mode=flat&#038;order=0&#038;thold=1\">Steam Beetle a few weeks back, and now, he has a new creation, each one always seeming to outdo the last. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crabfu.com\/steamtoys\/r2s2\/\" target=\"new\">R2S2<\/a> (R2 Steam 2) is a steam-powered droid built using the Cheddar steam boiler I-Wei uses in most of his creations, and Wilesco D48 marine engines. The R2 body is a Hasbro R2D2 Interactive Droid he snagged for cheap on eBay. I love the boiler pressure needle guage on the face plate. Check out the video. It&#8217;s hysterical. He has a little &#8220;ad&#8221; for his other Crabu creations at the end. <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/R2S2b.jpg\"> <\/p>\n<p> I just found out that I-Wei is going to be at the Maker Faire next month showing off his steam vehicles. I&#8217;ll finally get a cnance to meet him. I&#8217;m going to be there running Mousey the Junkbot workshops. Any other Street Techies going? <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digg.com\/submit\" target=\"new\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/img\/badges\/91x17-digg-button-alt.gif\" width=\"91\" height=\"17\" alt=\"Digg!\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think Jake von Slatt and I-Wei have a contest going to see who can post the most and coolest steampunky tech projects. We just blogged about I-Wei&#8217;s amazing Steam Beetle a few weeks back, and now, he has a new creation, each one always seeming to outdo the last. The R2S2 (R2 Steam 2) &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9523\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Steam-Driven Stars Wars Droid&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}