Before bop! season is truly underway for 2024, I wanted to do a quick thread starter for my longest running robot of all time, honk!.
honk! has of course seen many guises, from it’s early appearances as Mr Cat’s Mouse Mansion (2018-2021)
And Untitled Goose Robot (2022-early 2023)
Finally a brief pitstop as LORD FLIPPINGTONNE for BBC’s Boarders
Before making it to the honk! we see more recently. The rename comes simply because I based the new ‘look’ on my beetleweight bop!, as seen above.
This event in 2023 was a particular highlight:
For 2024 I wanted to finally give it the ability to at least drive in a straight line across an arena, which meant what I’d been putting off for a looong time. 4 wheels and belts.
I picked up some fixings and bushings I thought would be suitable, and planned to use some delightful donated HDPE for the new sets of wheels.
The ever wonderful Joe M printed up some pulleys for me and I learned how to green belt, after sorting the alignment slightly 
For our next event in August I’m planning on adding tyres to the back wheels (the skid was nice but the grip will be better 
a set of heavy duty scissors I picked up on Amazon have been game changing for bike tyre!) and making sure he looks on top form as always!
xo
