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Anna Hui Opsahl is an engineering student from Norway. She is known for reverse engineering complicated LEGO models and for her MINDSTORMS droids. Anna likes to make LEGO robots from movies and television that are recognizable by kids and adults. She often builds digital models in Studio.io before she makes a physical version because this gives her a good idea of all the parts needed. When she is building them in Studio, she makes a rough instruction for herself that she can refer back to when she starts the physical build. Anna was a competitor in the first season of LEGO Masters Norway in 2021. She has won several awards at Norwegian LEGO conventions for her MINDSTORMS droids. Most recently, she was nominated in the category "Best Mechanical Creation" and won in the category "Best Star Wars" at Brickworld Chicago. How did you get started playing with LEGO MINDSTORMS/LEGO Robots? I have always been fascinated by LEGO robots and robotics. I love that you can build a...

The Cat3rpillar by Anika Vuurzoon and Nard Strijbosch The Caterpillar is a unique combination of the LEGO Technic Forest Machine (42080) and LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 31313 set.  Design Idea: Anika and Nard have a background in building LEGO animals. Therefore, when given the opportunity come up with their own remix design, their first thought was to construct an animal. The Technic Forest Machine set comes with pneumatic elements and this gave them the idea to create an animal that would crawl. The green panels in the Technic set were a perfect fit for this project. The idea of a caterpillar was born! They started with an initial design sketch. The most challenge part of the construction was making the caterpillar crawl as fast as possible. To do this, they had to gear up the pneumatic pump to make it pump fast enough to ensure that there was sufficient air pressure. Although the final design has all the functions in the original sketch, Anika and Nard did have t...

One Set, Infinite Possibilities: Meet Coder Shah A LEGO MINDSTORMS set brings with it infinite possibilities. There are five robots featured on the box: EV3RSTORM, TRACK3R, SPIK3R, R3PTAR, and GRIPP3R.   When you are done with those you can start to build the twelve bonus models, ranging from a printer to a silly robot named, KRAZ3.   LEGO is a building block, meant to be built, taken apart and built again. The LEGO MINDSTORMS 31313 set is no different. STEM trainer,  Ahmad  Sahar (aka Coder Shah), from Malaysia, maximizes the potential of the 31313 set. He is a prolific builder, with seemingly no end of ideas for how to make something new using just one set. He takes the 31313 set and transforms it from an imperial walker one week, to a race car the next, to an animal the week after. Initially, Ahmad began building with one set because that is all he had. He wanted to share a different model with his classes each week. As time pa...

Four MINDSTORMS Community Partners (MCPs) have been selected to be at the World Robot Olympiad ( WRO ) International Finals hosted in San Jose, Costa Rica in November.  These experts will be presenting some of their robotic creations at the competition as well as hosting workshops at the Centro Nacional de Alta Tecnologia (CeNAT) .  Read a little bit about each MCP and the robots they plan to bring. If you are attending the event, stop by the Robot Experts Zone to play with some MINDSTORMS robots and talk to these Robot Experts. Will Gorman 
MINDSTORMS Community Partner Orlando, FL, USA Besides being part of the MCP team for many years now, Will has also been involved with the development and launch of the EV3 retail set. Will is best known in the LEGO robotics community for his unique YouTube videos including the WiigoBot , MakerLEGOBot , and RoboFlush robots. Professionally, Will is a software developer and entrepreneur, and currently a co-founder and Chief...