SO WHERE DID WE GO FROM THERE
My opinion quickly switched from ‘fun work break experiment’ to ‘I really like this let’s make it happen’. Let’s observe the journey down the road of bop!. Starting off with a bit of a pothole.
Anyway.
Some time later and some senses come to, the original wedgelet wedge was redesigned from the ground up to be a bit bulkier and also feature these new tpu forks, proven as a great option by Eoin with Babrog.
As I signed up to the event in Bognor Regis in early Feb, time was now against me to make this a thing with very limited free time.
It started, as it commonly does now, with Deepnest and I becoming reacquainted to make optimal use of material (still keepin’ it thrifty!)
Some hidden features on the baseplate as I was embedding the bulkheads into it anyway. Sadly the light doesn’t show them up as well as I’d hoped on the final version but it’s still fun.
Pulling the thing together, with the old internals still wired up to the hammer motor. Notable link block, as the event will not be allowing switches, but this machine is fully designed to switch (heh) it over as soon as possible.
We watched Invasion of the Bee Girls
Joe M printed all the goods for this one, including new wheel molds, hubs and a variety of forks.
Wheel time once more comes around. I’m often asked how my wheels are so vibrant - a tiny amount of mica powder goes a long way! i scoop some up on the end of a wooden skewer and stir it into my ~40g mix of polyurethane.
The rat observes.
Spare polyurethane got poured into the lil heart pocket on the bulkhead cos it’s cute.
Polycarb day came around some time later. Despite how much I hate CNCing the stuff, most of it came out fine. Most.
A New Greenhouse
Lil link door. Absolutely mandatory.
Adding colour to the wedges using paint pen. This is my ‘no pls’ wedge for horizontals. I expect it to need replacing after Bognor.
And, a few details aside, a completed bop!
so angery 
so aggressive 
so angular 
so paint pen bleed
Super jazzed about this build. Think it’s by far my cleanest looking build ignoring the wire spaghet. I’m really excited to bring it out for some events this year and, I’ll say it quietly cos I know what I’m like, I feel like this might be my ‘ultimate’ bop! build for the foreseeable. The Fusion folder for this robot is ‘bop! x’ and while that’s a silly title in my head and definitely not the actual robot name it has some finality? Building such a silly ineffective weapon into an aesthetic box is certainly somewhat limiting in a lot of ways and this is perhaps the zenith of where I want it to be? We’ll see.