Read more: Lucille Ball Suffered Life-Changing Sacrifices For Star Trek In the "Star Wars" movies, R2-D2 is more or less an outsized, high-tech Swiss Army knife, equipped with tools and soldering ...

As a kid, [Wes] always dreamed of building a full-size, functional R2-D2 droid from Star Wars. While most youthful aspirations such as this fall to the wayside amid adult responsibilities and ...