The Robot

Before we start:

Conventions

Each step is labeled with a grey bar. Steps have three different background colours.

• White -- a main step.
• Yellow -- sub-step These sections need to be built separately. The assembly is added to the next main step.
• Green -- sub-sub-step These sections also need to be built separately. These are added to sub-steps.

Colours of pieces

From the left: Double Long Friction Pin (Black), Friction pin (Black), Pin (Grey, not used), 3/4 pin (Dark Grey). Stud pin (Grey, not shown, not used).

Many LEGO pieces can come in any colour, but some come in specific colours. The most notably of these are the pins (shown on the right) where the colour reflects the pins purpose. All the pins, used in this robot except the 3/4 pins, are black.
Apart from the black frictions pins, the colours used in the instructions where chosen so that you could see where new pieces go -- some of the pieces may not be available in the colour shown. However most of the time the colour used will be the most common colour of that piece.

Parts conventions

Text in dark blue represents the size of LEGO piece.
LEGO pieces are measured by the LEGO studs on the top of LEGO pieces, for example:

This piece is a LEGO brick, 8 studs long, and 2 studs wide.	This is a 6 long axle, It is measured by placing the axle against a plate or brick and counting the studs.

Text like X 2 describes how many pieces or assemblies are required, for example on the left is a parts list and on the right is an assembly step:

For this step,you will need two of the 16long technic bricks, (the red brick with holes -- remembering to count the studs) and 3 of the black friction pins (friction pins are only black).	You will need to make this assembly twice.

Build the robot

There are four stages in the construction of the robot. You need to do all four stages. When you get to the bottom of the stage, click on image to the right of the blue arrow.
 
It takes, on average, about an 1 hour 15 minutes to build this robot.

Warning Each of these stages is largely made up of large images. If you are on a slow Internet connection you may want to download a compressed version of these web pages. (below the stage selection bar).

To build the robot, click on the first stage: 1.

Downloading the Instructions

If you find the build instructions useful, or have suggestions,
please let me know: mvenz@itee.uq.edu.au

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