Robot Game — Robots & Attachments
Noodle, Toodle and five toppings.
Two robots let us work on both sides of the board at once. Interchangeable attachments, named after ramen toppings, do the missions.
Noodle
Toodle
Robot specs
Frame Open frame
Motors Large motors; drive motors repositioned for balance
Wheels 62.4 mm flat tread wheels
Sensors Gyroscopic
Code Python (Pybricks)
Robot iterations
We tested constantly, then rebuilt.
We switched to large motors, changed wheel size, reinforced the frame for stability, moved to an open frame and repositioned the drive motors for better balance.
[BEFORE PHOTO]
Before: [what we changed]
After: Noodle today
Our ramen toppings
Five attachments, each doing more than one job.
Run 1 · 60 pts
El Trio
Mission 8 (Tangled) and Mission 9 (Research Platform), and it collects the seed.
Run 2 · 30 pts
Bamboo Shoot
Mission 3 (Flip the Rock). It is a leave-behind, so it stays on the field.
Run 3 · 60 pts
Miso
Mission 2 (Exploding Seeds), collects seeds and pushes one leaf from Mission 4 (Lucky Leaves).
Run 4 · 110 pts
Bean Sprout
Missions 1 (Drone Survey), 6 (Leafcutter Frenzy) and 13 (Keystone Species), and pushes the garden skylight. With an extra beam on the arm it also does Mission 5 (Reaching Roots).
Run 5 · 100 pts
Nori
Missions 7 (Humongous Fungus), 11 (Window to the Past), 12 (Forest Elder) and 15 (Biocentric Architecture).
Toppings that didn’t make the bowl
Not every idea works. These two taught us as much as the ones we kept.
Retired
Sesame
Would have done Missions 7 and 12, but it wasn’t reliable enough.
Retired
Chopsticks
Would have done Missions 4 and 5, but it needed too much gear reduction.