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The second of 4 models designed by the community for Robot Remix #6 is called LIZARD by Anton Vanhoucke.  We asked him to tell us a bit more about how this idea came to be, his design process and challenges he faced building the LIZARD. Because of the green parts in the Forest Machine I looked for green animals. There weren't many. Mostly crocodiles, dinosaurs and lizards. I figured I'd make the LEGO model curve while walking like a real lizard. I was lucky to find that the forest machine includes two turn tables! These would make for nice body joints. To be sure it would work I did a rough model in Studio and sketched over it on my iPad.  When I got the sets and started building I discovered that my Studio model didn't work. The legs needed a better mechanism and the torso twisted the wrong way. That was a bit of a set-back. I also hoped at first that it would walk with only it's legs and the tail for balance, but I had to put wheels under th...

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...