Hello from Noddin Robotmakers!

Robotmakers Team at Scrimmage

Hi there! We’re a team of five students from Noddin Elementary School (San Jose, California) called the Robotmakers, participating in the 2023-2024 FIRST LEGO League (FLL) robotics competition. Our team consists of Anika, Aidan, Ryan, Antoni and Ariana. As of April 2024, we finished the season with the Robot Design 1st Place Award at the Northern California Championship and are getting ready for the next season. We have had an excellent experience, and we hope that we will achieve higher goals next season.

Robotmakers Team at Qualifier Robotmakers Team at Championship

Within this site, you’ll find pages that talk about who we are and how we’ve got together, our robot game strategies and design process, our programming methods, our Innovation Project, the many tech tools we have learned, a gallery with our pictures, and much more about our learning journey and memories together!

Below are a few interesting highlights.

Coding Our Robot with Pybricks

We use Pybricks, the best open-source Python library for LEGO robotics. Pybricks is useful because it is precise and because Python, which Pybricks is based on, is easy to read for all team members. Pybricks also supports us with a few advanced functionalities for running multiple programs and using special drive base control.

Innovation Project on Skiing for Disabled People

For our Innovation Project, we focus on researching skiing because our team loves it and would like to help disabled people enjoy skiing too. We’ve come up with a design named SkiChair 2.0 that lets you sit down and still ski. We started by researching how we could assist individuals with disabilities in skiing, then reached out to organizations and experts for insights and feedback. After expert advice from Maine Adaptive Sports & Recreation, we have improved our design and 3D-printed our prototype.

Collaboration and Website Building on GitHub

We have created and been managing our own GitHub organization. We use GitHub to help us collaborate when we are not sitting together. Through GitHub, we can store and track our Python code, review each other’s code changes to avoid mistakes, and make many improvements over time.

We have also used GitHub Pages to make the website you are on right now! We hope you enjoy your time here and explore our other pages listed on the sidebar.