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#3 Manty - made by Laurens Valk.

The third bonus model is made by Laurens Valk, who is a young builder from the Netherlands. Laurens has a good and prominent track record with designing, building and programming robots, and also writing books about them! Laurens is contributor to the blog The NXT Step, and participated in book projects with the fellow bloggers, and will soon release his own book about LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT robots.

We are all awed by enormous robotic creations made up of 100’s or even 1000’s of LEGO elements that take days or even weeks to build, but we are also amazed by simple models you can build in a snap!

Thanks to NXTSTORMER and mindstorms-teen for submitting the inspirational idea for this NXTLOG Arcade Game Challenge! Almost 100 NXTLOGgers joined in the fun to build a robot based on an arcade game. There were many pinball machines, skee-ball players, car races, and even "test your strength" robots that made you imagine you were on the midway on a hot summer's day.