Build Your Own R2-D2

De Agostini Publishing Italia S.p.A.

About this app

- Use with Build Your Own R2-D2 to control his functions and see his camera view. This app works with DeAgostini's Build Your Own R2-D2 and gives access to the droid's advanced functions. It will only operate when your R2-D2 has been fully assembled and powered up. Once the app is installed on your smartphone, you have two ways to pair it with R2-D2. You can either connect it directly to his internal router (Direct mode), or connect both devices via a local Wifi network (Local mode). To go into Local mode, you teach R2-D2 the Wifi connection of the area he is in using a unique QR code, which he will read using his camera.

In either connection mode, you have a choice of Video or Normal Control:

- When Video Control is on, your smartphone screen displays the view from R2-D2's camera, which will change as you drive him around or turn his head. A set of remote controls are superimposed at the bottom. You can capture still pictures or video from his point of view, storing the images in a Gallery within the app or copying them to the library on your phone. You also have a scrollable menu of automatic routines, which include being able to set him exploring his surroundings in an autonomous Patrol mode, turning on his lights and sounds, ejecting a lightsaber, and displaying video clips from his projector.

- When Normal Control is on, your smartphone operates like a conventional remote control, so you can watch as you direct R2-D2 around his environment. You also have access to the same automatic routines as in Video Control.

- An additional Settings control enables you to turn on voice control so that R2-D2 will respond to a range of spoken commands. Turning on facial recognition allows him to pick out a human face from the background and turn to follow it. You can also turn R2-D2's sound effects on or off.

Ratings and reviews

Not the best. camera awful voice commands terrible this app was not thought through and you are not going to get any updates in the future. If honest don't buy as not worth the money you will spend.

I've been playing woth the app for a few days now and have a few suggestions for the tech team. 1- To stop it from wandering about please include a wheel lock function so it can stay in place and can do voice recognition functions. 2- Include some sort of diagnostics to test all the sensors are working properly. 3- If it could be accessed remotely when your away from home as its connected to wifi. 4- Some sort of charging indicating when switched off, but still charging. working good!! thanks.

The patrol mode seems to work better when activated through the app instead of manually by the buttons. If done manually he tends to play destruction Derby with your furniture. As for the voice detection and voice commands....i can see why c3po used to kick and punch him. The voice detection is very poor and he doesn't do a simple thing you command him to do with your voice. The microphone is very poorly made

What's new

Update the image view function