RE: The Dublinmaker, annual event for makers in Ireland
The stls for exterior and frame on bb8 builders club. Give them time, they will accept you. Join joes drive, vonjet bb8 sphere, daver's RCD and droid designs on facebook for more options for driving mechanism. 2 last are in beta testing stage but look like very beautiful mechanisms. Joes drive is well tested and looks like it works but I prefer other 2 for clean and compact build. If you want it rolling, I guess injection molded frame will be a good base. I would also consider vonjet design where you don't need inner frame. I would go this route if I was just starting. I didn't like that panels could shift and move little when attached to frame and the big gaps appeared. It was probably caused by my resin cast and slightly flexible panels.
Also, if printing all the droid, try to do it the biggest parts possible. It is much less cleaning and gaps. Choose the rings and inner panels joined together. It is so much faster to mask the orange or white than sand and later fit them together.
got accepted by now :D busy reading the forums ...will look into the drive mechanics...
Awsome! I am curious about your experience. I bought the rc BB8 toy and after few minutes playing with it, crashing on furniture, head popped tens of times., I realized I would be so angry if I had to fix it after every public appearance. I don't have the hollywood budget for red carpet events :)
I would define it with my live and don’t let others play with it :)