Remix: Saphiro the Blue Dragon

[Antonvh]

Hi All,

Here's a dragon MOC I made a few months ago. You can build it with 42066 (Race Jet) and 31313 (Mindstorms). It can walk forward, backwards and make turns. To my best knowledge, not many LEGO quadrupeds have this range of movement. Enjoy!

I also did a making-of video. You might be interested in all my bloopers:

I didn't make building instructions, but there's an LXF file here. I'm not a really good builder - I'm more of a programmer - so I would be interested in your suggestions and improvements:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3p...

Programming the dragon is not really easy, because you need to sync and resync the legs.

Here's program file to get you started:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3phDY_OwOU9VEdMLUQzNUFBLW8/view

 

[Boulderer]

Another post with Mindstorms content. Excellent. 

I like the fact you have restricted the build to the two sets. The appearance is clearly dragon like. 

Nice to get the turntable built from leftovers also. 

[Aventador2004]

Wow, I love this so now much! My favourite color and a mindstorms unit.

[BusterHaus]

Nice project, thanks for sharing it. I like the swinging tail quite a bit. 

[MangaNOID]

That, is seriously frikken awesome. One of the best things I seen with Lego  technic!

All the movements looked really good!

is the mindstorms programmed and then it just runs through those moves? Or is that a remote where you can somewhat control it? (I don’t know anything about mindstorns other than the price!)

thanks for sharing

[Antonvh]

2 hours ago, MangaNOID said:

Is that a remote where you can somewhat control it?

You can remote control it with mindstorms IR remote. It has about 40 button combinations you can program! I programmed it to listen to forward, backward, turn left, turn right, lift head, lower head, roar with light show, and some other dinosaur sounds.