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Facebook EV3 group member Pi Ksar has shared with us a pretty neat robot arm made out of LEGO MINDSTORMS - I asked him a little bit about himself and describe his project: Hi, I’m Pawel, 37 married, from Poland background : electrical engineer work : global consultant – 270 days per year in travel hobby : modern technologies, history, traveling   Always dreaming about having own Kuka style robot. Because of flat space I cannot buy real one. So decision about building my own was made. Why Lego ? Because it’s flexible system and many spare parts available. First attempt was 2 years ago with NXT 2.0 but without luck – I need at least 6 motors to be controlled. So waiting for EV3... ...When EV3 appeared – bought a few sets. Now available at my workshop : -        4xEV3 unit, 16 servo motors, 8 touch sensors, Gyro, more sensors from sets -        Lego Technic : Unimog, 4x4 RC, large buldoger and few ...

The NXT STEP wishes every reader a Merry Christmas! As some sort of Christmas surprise, check out this awesome life-size LEGO® car , driven by a pneumatic engine:

Now here is one awesome robot design!! Youtube user akiyuky さんのチャンネル from Japan presents in this video the LEGO Mindstorms NXT 5-axis Robot S750 Demo Notice the combination of Technic and System gives this robot a very slick design! Simply inspiring!

Xander over at 'I'd rather be building robots' has made a nice modification to Laurens' 'Snatcher' robot.  He added pneumatic valves to operate both the gripper and lifter, and used the Mindsensors and Dexter sensors to control all the fiddly parts. More details (including pics) -  http://mightor.wordpress.com/2011/03/21/the-pneuma-snatcher/ -- Damien Kee www.damienkee.com

NeXTSTORM , Greek creator of many a fascinating LEGO® model, has published a new movie , this time on Kevin Clague 's stunning pneumatic robots that could be seen on LEGOWORLD 2010 :