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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...

Remember Cube Stormer one and a half year ago, the MINDSTORMS-driven machine that could solve a Rubik's Cube very fast? Now, its creators have come out with an enhanced version, called Cube Stormer II . It can solve an arbitrary cube faster than any human:

Remember this? TiltedTwister . Hans is back, and now with an even nicer Cube Solver, completely made with the NXT2.0 retail kit. He supplied complete Building instructions Happy building, and solving your little brothers cube.

Mark C from Ireland has published a neat video on a cube-shaped mobile NXT robot, called Que-boid: Very nice! Do not forget to visit Mark's web site which is a true blossom in the NXT web garden; a multitude of very interesting NXT (and other LEGO®) projects can be found there, alongside with detailed building instructions.