ROBOTMAK3RS Blog

by guest blogger Cyrus Cuenca Hello readers, On Dec 18th 2015, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, opened worldwide. In celebration of this occasion, members of the LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 Facebook Group helped me put together all the Star Wars robots built with MINDSTORMS. I almost brought my 100% LEGO BB-8 robot to the premier, but the programming wasn't quite done yet. Anyways, the list of robots presented here range in complexity however, all of them are are super awesome! The first two robots I would like to display are my LEGO MINDSTORMS BB-8 robot, and Marc Andre Bazergui’s LEGO R2-D2. My LEGO MINDSTORMS BB-8 robot is based off a previous robot I built, called a WHEEL BIK3 . When I first saw BB-8 in the Star Wars: Episode 7 trailers, I immediately wanted to build one. However, once I got around to researching how BB-8 moves, it became apparent I wouldn't be able to built BB-8 the way people usually do, because LEGO doesn't make smooth hollow spheres ...

LEGO WORLD was a blast this year, last time I was invited there was in 2012 with my large WALL-E5 transforming robot.  This time I showed up with the large R2-EV3, small QUIZ-E (son of wall-e) and Andy's CREEP3R from Minecraft. The MINDSTORMS booth was right beside the red brick section the contrast was awesome. My friends Vassilis, Anika, Simon, Mike, Lasse & Kenneth, Martyn & Eric, Lee, Harald and Nicolai where also there with their robots and for the first time we thought of taking a group photo with all of the robots. We also had a group of Danish FLL kids helping us out. Here Yohannes is taking ownership of R2-EV3 and loving every moment of it; Half of the event we brought CREEPER at the official LEGO MINDCRAFT booth where he was a total success. Here a light weight stunt lady is testing Simon's Hov3rboard; There was also a very popular CODING  section managed by the FLL kids; Even Laurens Valk self Balenc3r was with me and many visitors took note of his website f...