Tardigrade: A custom-built moon rover from Hookie Co.
Ever wondered what it would be like to ride a motorcycle on the moon" Meet the Tardigrade?a conceptual electric lunar vehicle, named after the microscopic creatures that can survive in the vacuum of space. Brought to life by Hookie Co. around a Cake drivetrain, it was conceived in Moscow, built in Dresden, and will soon be on display at the Petersen Museum in Los Angeles.
How did the stars align for this otherworldly project to begin"
On November 1, 2020, Russian designer Andrew Fabishevskiy published renderings of his NASA lunar motorcycle on behance.net. A social media firestorm ensued, catching the attention of Hookie Co. founder, Nico Müller.
?I saw Andrew?s concept sketch and was hooked immediately,? Müller says. ?After some calls we got his approval to build this amazing machine. Andrew?s renderings weren?t detailed and true to scale, so the design process began using Autodesk Fusion 360, and we engineered the whole Tardigrade from scratch.?
The digital engineering alone took almost six months; Hookie reworked, rethought, and developed every part on the bike from the ground up. It was the German company?s first project where they designed everything in-house. Overall, it took Hookie nine months from a sketch to the finished bike, underwritten with financial support from Puraglobe Syntainics.
Müller and his team partnered with the Swedish electric brand CAKE on a previous project based on the Ösa+ and Ösa Lite, called the Hookie ANT. They decided t...
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