Team TrotBot: Tom Patterson, Adam Vagle, Ben Vagle, Sam Korman, Alby Musaelian, August Toevs, Wade Vagle. Photo by Kevin Beaty of Westword.

Below are a few pics of the team starting from the beginning in the LEGO stage of the project.  As you can tell by the boy's intense looks of concentration, figuring out how to build functioning walkers in LEGO without plans to copy is not trivial!

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Here's team leader Alby Musaelian describing TrotBot to Make Magazine: