Turntable — Terran Astromech Droid Assembly Works (TADAW)

This is the Raspberry Pi 3 with Raspberry Pi camera module v2 that I am using for the radar eye. I have a longer ribbon cable for when I install it in Artoo.

A picture of the camera live feed with the code to control the motor for the turntable.

Testing control of the turntable motor

This is the dome support structure. Because my dome is papier-mâché, I’m a bit concerned about it being crushed (although it is solid as a rock), so I’ve built it this skeleton.

Here you can see my turntable peeking out from underneath that skeleton!

My dad helped me cut a notch into the turntable. This is to allow the motor to spin only the top half of the turntable instead of trying to move the whole thing. (In other words, this was the wrong cheap turntable to buy.)

This is the notch we cut.

Checking to make sure the motor will fit and actually move the turntable.


Marking where to drill the holes for mounting the motor.

No photos were taken during the actual drilling as all hands were on deck!

Threading the zip ties through the drilled holes was very difficult.