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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 ...

TOW3R   By Thomas  Madeya   My  contribution to  #robotremix3  is  TOW3R , named after the puzzle game “Tower of  Hanoi ” .  If you don’t know the game you should learn about it  first  from   Wikipedia.   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Hanoi .   I use the tires from both sets to create  3  “ discs ”  of different diameter.  TOW3R  move s  them around according to the rules of the game.  Here are  first  photos I too k  to discuss the idea  even  before the actual build  started     My  first sketches  for TOW3R  already  showed the key  construction   concepts :   Turntable  driven  by one motor to  rotate to  three different positions   Second motor to move the arm up/down   Third motor to open/close the cla...