Sopwith Camel Bought With Birthday MONEY

I've been wanting the Sopwith Camel Lego Set  for a looooooooonnnnnnnngggggg time.  After my birthday I had enough money to buy it. A huge thanks to all my family!

(WARNING if you build this set always support the front of the plane when picking it up!)


It was extremely fun to build but really hard. It was hard because of the steering mechanism which used a lot of ropes.

Here are a few pictures before it broke in half. I'm planning to take the whole thing apart and rebuild it.

victorious Chewbacca!

Book Club - Homework Machine

I go to a Book Club at my library. The most recent book I read in Book Club was The Homework Machine written by Dan Gutman. I thought it was a really cool book because people with very different personalities become friends because of the homework machine.

During book club we all built a catapult because in the book the friends get in trouble, so they catapult Belch, the homework machine, into the Grand canyon!!!


 

  

City Hawk

My Dad and I went to the Titanic Exhibit at the downtown science museum not too long ago.  We saw a hawk fly out from a hole in a tree. We were really surprised.  We also heard "cheep-cheep" sounds that sounded like baby birds. I took a picture of it when it landed on a lamp post not far away.

Penguin

Sorry that I haven't posted in so long. This post is about a penguin that I made out of very few pieces. I might post instructions for him later. If you are interested leave me a comment. I have two versions. One with glasses (actually binoculars) who I call Professor Penguin. The other is the one with a hat. I  call him Adventure Penguin.

Santa bot

Santa bot was definitely my hardest NXT build so far. The arms were the hardest part.  I added a loop to the program so Santa bot would move forward, see somebody and open his basket. I put candy in the basket and when the person took candy out the SantaBot would say "HoHoHO Merry Christmas & Happy New Year" then he would back up and start over. I brought it to my family at Christmas and everyone enjoyed it a lot!I also brought it to the science fair to show everybody. I made a  YouTube video that shows how he works. 

I got the instructions to build it from an awesome blog called MP's NXT Universe. You can find the instructions to build your own under the NXT Robots category. He named it NXTolaus. Make sure you also check out the video of his NXT Gatling Gun! It is amazing.