Some fans say Gonk the Power Droid is an out-dated, useless hunk of metal, I say he’s the unsung hero of the saga. Either way, now you have a chance to make your own Gonk to sit around the house or keep you company as you work at your desk.
Total construction time was about 8 hours. My Gonk has working lights in the faceplate. I used Radio Shack switches and lights. I worked on the wiring while the paint was drying. I will include what I did to get the lights to work but you don’t need to do that for yours. This was a very easy and fun project.
Check out the DIY Gonk instructions here.
Tags: Robots
[...] Published September 11th, 2007 Sci-Fi , Star Wars The Official Star Wars Blog has posted a link to a tutorial to build your own Gonk Droid, a power converter droid that was originally seen in A New Hope as one of the [...]
The instructions aren’t “full”…
Lots of the pics are missing.
Gonk!
I know that you can email the guy who runs that page with any questions you might have about the project…
VERY GOOD. I WANT TO BUILD R2-D4. I KNOW WHERE TO GET MY MATERIAL, JUST NEED THE TIME.