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Chinese New Year falls on the 5th of February this year. Are you ready to celebrate with good food, good friends...and of course, some MINDSTORMS robots? In the Chinese calendar, each year is associated in an animal from the Chinese Zodiac, and this year is the Year of the Pig.  Celebrate Year of the Pig with MINDSTORMS: So let's get started with a MINDSTORMS pig by Coder Shah, called PORK3R . This fun creation can walk forward and backward, and its head bobs up and down when it walks! You can build this model just using the parts from the LEGO MINDSTORMS 31313 set. This  video shows you the building instructions. If you have the 42050 Drag Racer set as well as the 31313 set, you can an alternative version called   TROTT3R , also designed by Coder Shah. TROTT3R is a more complex model that can walk and turn. It also has a massive eight cylinder engine at the back with working pistons.  Other Animals from the Chinese Zodiac: If ...

In 2015, LEGO® MINDSTORMS® Community Partners (MCP) were challenged to imagine awesome robots using parts from only a retail MINDSTORMS set and a LEGO Technic. The #ROBOTREMIX concept was born. The first remix, in 2015 was with the Technic SeaPlane, in 2016 there was one with the TeleHandler and one with the DragRacer. For 2017,  LEGO challenged the MCP to remix with the very big, super cool,  LEGO Technic Jet Plane set!  One challenge different from the other remix was the need to incorporate the Power Function motor found in that large set. Some amazing ideas were proposed but only 4 could be selected to turn their ideas into actual models. After month of work, we are ready to present you with the 4 Robot Remix of 2017! SAPHIRO, a beautiful blue dragon by Anton Vanhoucke from the Netherlands. CR3AM ROULETTE, a funny pie in your face game by Andreas Baumgart from Germany. StormLEv3L, a fantastic arcade like game by Michael Dobson and David Gilday ...