School holiday activity · Kuching 21 November 2026
Bring your kid. Build the worst robot you can.
A one-day contest where badly built robots beat well built ones. No experience needed — any age can enter, and anyone under 13 just needs an adult with them. You get the parts and the tools; you bring the ambition.
Makeramai Makerspace, Plaza Merdeka, Kuching, Sarawak
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Ages
Any age can enter. Under 13s bring an adult. Younger siblings welcome to watch.
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What you get
Parts, tools and a one-hour build session. Bring nothing.
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How long
10.00 AM – 6.30 PM. Come and go as your kid's attention allows.
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Cost
From RM10 to watch. RM20 to build and compete.
Enter a robot
Build something awful and bring it. No skill required, none expected.
Register
Play Heboi Rumble
Assemble junk, shove your opponent out of the ring, lose to a brick.
Play now
Workshops
Come and build one on the day — included with your team entry.
Find out more
Spectator tickets
Entry is ticketed this year. Two tiers, from RM10.
Plan your visitBring the whole family
Entry is ticketed this year, from RM10. Matches last a minute, the robots fall over constantly, and the room cheers the worst one. Children compete alongside adults — it is loud, it is short, and nothing about it needs explaining.
21 November 2026 · Makeramai Makerspace, Plaza Merdeka, Kuching, Sarawak
Get on the list for 2026
One email when the date is confirmed and entries open. Nothing else.
Robots
Cardboard, slippers, biscuit tins, one wobbly motor and hope. Every entry is photographed and catalogued like a serious product, because that is funnier.
Rules
A 100 by 50 centimetre plywood ring. First robot out loses. Tip over and you lose. Anything clever costs you six points a match.
Play
Heboi Rumble puts the whole contest in your browser. Build badly, drive badly, get shoved out of the ring by a brick.
Workshops
Turn up with nothing and leave with a robot — no separate ticket, it comes with your team entry.
Hebokit collection
Pick up your Hebokit a week before the contest, then build with it on the spot. One-hour build session at 2.00 PM — materials, tools and someone to ask.
- When
- 14 November 2026
10.00 AM – 5.00 PM - Where
- Makeramai Makerspace
Plaza Merdeka
Kuching, Sarawak - Build session
- 2.00 PM, one hour
Included with every robot
What every entry gets
One price covers the Hebokit, a Hebocon Sarawak t-shirt, Makeramai merchandise and food vouchers for the day.
What is in the box
- A mini hot glue gun and glue sticks
- A crimping tool, wire and a battery holder
- Three AA batteries
- Two wheels and four motors
- Switches, a charging cable and an assortment of screws and bolts
- Two A3 acrylic sheets to build with
- A printed Hebokit booklet, with a place to write what you made
- The cardboard box itself — cut it up and it is your chassis
Also included
- A Hebocon Sarawak t-shirt
- Makeramai merchandise
- Food vouchers for the day
The prizes
What the podium takes home
Four printers. Build something terrible, and you could leave with the machine to build a better one next year.
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Champions
Bambu Lab A1 Mini
×2
One A1 Mini each for the two champions.
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Runner-ups
Creality SparkX i7
×2
One SparkX i7 each for the two runner-ups.
Event day
How the day runs
One arena from first light to the last robot. Doors open at 8.00 AM — builders register, then everything plays out in front of you.
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8.00 AM
Registration opens
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10.00 AM
Opening speech and workshop
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11.30 AM
Lunch break
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12.00 PM
Hebocon knockouts
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5.00 PM
Arena prep for the closing ceremony
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6.00 PM
Closing ceremony
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6.30 PM
Event adjourns
Times are a working plan, not a train timetable. The knockouts run until the arena is empty.
Come and watch
Entry is ticketed this year. Two tiers, one price each, and both get you in for the whole day.
You will get a reference code by email. Show it at the door — that code is your ticket.
“Do not get caught up on winning. The point is the robots are bad.”
Partners
Organiser
Delivery Partner
Venue Provider
Community
Nothing here yet — this is the first Hebocon Sarawak. Build something terrible and you will be in next year's grid.
Robots from other Hebocon chapters around the world — not this year's entries. Sarawak's first go here once they exist.
A chapter, not a franchise
Hebocon started in Japan in 2014 and has since run in more than twenty-five countries. There is no licence to buy and no fee to pay — anyone willing to follow the format can run one. Hebocon Sarawak is a community chapter under that model.
The first Sarawak edition is in November 2026 at Makeramai Makerspace in Plaza Merdeka, Kuching. Spectator tickets start at RM10. Entering costs RM20 and requires no skill whatsoever, which is the point.