Meet Quebec's homegrown Star Wars R2 droid

Terrebonne's Frdric St-Amour is the proud builder of his own remotecontrolled R2-T54droid.

"For the love of Star Wars," is what inspired St-Amour to make the robot.

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He spent 21months building his robot with plans and help from the online R2-D2 builder community.

"You can always download pretty much anything," St-Amour told CBC Montreal's Daybreak.

His R2costsabout $3,000 dollars to build. It weighs about 80 poundsand is made out of plastic.

An aluminum version of his creation could cost $12,000.

The droid can move around, make beeping noises and even blow smoke.St-Amourplans to add a scanner and a periscope.

He told Daybreak he ispleased with the attention his R2droid has gotten.

"I bring him to hospitals, I bring him to studios."

St-Amour's day job is being a paramedic and uses his drone building hobby to unwind.

"It's a stressful job it's the perfect way to de-stress after work," St-Amour said.