We’ve all watched the new Star Wars : The Force Awakens teaser trailer a dozen times.  We’ve seen the parodies, and the scene by scene break-downs and a lot of us have already been thinking about the toy and merchandise that will be flowing freely in a year’s time.  But what about now?  What if you don’t want to wait another 6-9 months before you get your first episode VII figure?

That’s where technology come into play.  For those of you that can’t wait for what the elves at Hasbro are cooking up will need to fire up your in-home 3-D printers because according to 3DPrint.com someone has already created and uploaded the 3-D model

So perhaps by now you are wondering how this is at all related to 3D printing. Well, thanks to 3D printing, within hours of a new character, such as Ball Droid being revealed, we already have the means of creating a physical model/toy of the little robot. Thingiverse User, lilykill has taken the time to 3D model the ball-like robot, and post that design for free so that anyone with a 3D printer can download and 3D print the Ball Droid figurine. Posted with a Creative Commons – Attribution – Share Alike license, the model is made up of a single STL file.

The uploaded Ball Droid model is 1:1 scale with the head being approximately the same diameter as R2-D2’s. Of course in order for this model to really stand out, those who do end up 3D printing it will need to add a good deal of paint, otherwise this sophisticated little robot may end up looking like nothing more than a melting snowman.

You can read all about it and get the link to the information here in this article over on 3-DPrint.com.