Laurens Valk is a member of the MINDSTORMS Community Partners, a select group of experts who help test and develop new MINDSTORMS products, and his model is featured as one of the bonus robots on the EV3 packaging. Valk is the author of the bestselling LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT 2.0 Discovery Book (No Starch Press) and he blogs about robots at robotsquare.com.