While I joined before Celebration 6, it wasn’t until after spending time in the droid room at CVI that I became enamored with droids. After building a Mouse Droid, I built my first real Astromech, R5-J2. I have also built an R2-D2 as well as a Gonk droid. My favorite part of being a droid builder is that I have been able to share this with my children and help each build their own droids.
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