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Sphero Star Wars BB-8 Super Cute Droid Review

Others/Miscelleneous by stefan @ 2015-12-11

BB-8 is a droid which appears in the latest Star Wars: The Force Awakens movie and thanks to Sphero and their cooperation with Lucasfilm and Disney Consumer products, we are able to have a smaller version of it in our homes, which sports some of the features which we have seen in the trailers of the well-known episode of the series. Sphero has built BB-8 on the proven platform of their other droids so the final result is a fully-fledged app-controlled robot which can be driven in a manual mode, comes with a “Patrol” automatic mode and can also display holographic clips (up to 12 seconds long) via the augmented reality feature of the application. Sphero has also mentioned that they will continue to update the robot and add more interesting features to it, near the date The Force Awakens will be released and also afterwards.

A Closer Look Part II

For the people which are familiar with the Star Wars universe, the dock resembles a Star Wars hologram projection pod:

On the bottom side of the inductive charging dock we will get to see four small rubber feet and a central sticker with the power rating:

On the sides, we will get to see the other interesting design elements so it would fit in with the Star Wars universe perfectly:

In the vicinity of the Star Wars logo, we will also get to see three semi-transparent lines; here is the area where the charging LED resides:

There is also a Reset button available which can be pressed when BB-8 is docked; this reset operation can be also done within the app:

Also on the side we will be able to spot the USB port:

The black cardboard enclosure does contain a multi-language document with extra explanations on the product, but also the USB cable used for charging:

The connectors of the cable are also branded with the Sphero logo:

Our little BB-8 drone is composed from two parts: its head and its main body, which is designed like a ball (Sphero ball):

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