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The maker movement has given inspiration to many talented builders and programmers.   LEGO ®  and MINDSTORMS ®  have become a perfect platform for unleashing the creativity of many makers. Recently, we have seen LEGO machines that solve Rubik’s cubes , print photographs and cards , weave scarves , play games , and more.   Here are three innovative 3D printers made with LEGO MINDSTORMS from makers in Montreal, California, and Pennsylvania. EV3Dprinter  by bazmarc Inspired by 3D printers at World Maker Faire, Marc-André Bazergui (aka bazmarc), in collaboration with Thomas Madeya, created the first 3D printer made with MINDSTORMS. For Marc-André, the most fun part of this project was working with someone in a different part of the world:   Thomas lives in Germany while Marc-André lives in Canada. Dubbed EV3Dprinter, this amazing machine is able to print a variety of shapes by selecting the parameters on the EV3 programmable brick. In 2016, Marc-Andr...

Hi guys, bazmarc here with another WALL-E robot. That's right it not my first one :) I made several popular ones back in the NXT days, namely zWALL-E4 and WALL-E5 both traveled the world going to LEGO WORLD and WRO from 2011 to 2013. Read more about those here http://bazmarc.ca/bazmarc/WALL-E.html. Later, when the EV3 came out, I decided to replicate one of them, WALL-E4 but using the new technology and because I was also working on a big R2D2 he turned out mainly white ;)   So that bring the count to 6. During this past xmas/new-year holiday I built the LEGO IDEA WALL-E kit. It was a really fun built and it made me realize that even thought the movie came out back in 2008, this cute Disney/Pixar character will always be a favorite!   So out of no where I decide it would be cool to recreate my famous transforming WALL-E5 and given the extra motor ports and medium motors of the EV3,  I could probably managed to make it smaller while having most of the same featur...