BrickBots FLL
BrickBots FLL Team 65018 is a crew of 4th grade innovators competing in the FIRST LEGO League Unearthed season. They design, build, and program LEGO robots while engineering real-world solutions — proving that great innovation starts early.
Our Robot
The Buggy Bot — designed, built, and programmed entirely by the team
Drive Base — The Buggy Bot
The Buggy Bot uses a neutral mid-range gear ratio optimized for both speed and torque across the competition mat. The chassis is a lightweight yet rigid SPIKE structure with support framing in front for passive heavy attachments and a gravity-drop system for quick attachment swaps. Key design features include:
Robot Iterations
First Build
Spike Advanced Driving Base — our starting platform to learn the field.
Improved Motors
Repositioned motors for better weight distribution and attachment access.
Competition Ready
Final Buggy Bot — light, fast, and optimized for all 5 routes.
Attachments
The team designed 7 purpose-built attachments covering all mission runs on the Unearthed mat. Each attaches and detaches quickly using the gravity-drop mount system, allowing the robot to run multiple missions per base launch.
Programming
The robot is programmed using the SPIKE App with a block-based architecture built around reusable myblocks for maximum consistency between runs. The team's key coding innovations:
Robot Game Strategy
The team's competition strategy is built around maximizing points through efficient routing and reliable autonomous execution:
- Break Missions into parts and target max points per mission
- Prioritize minimal movement to mission models
- Target a single launch point per base for all tasks
- Design Jigs for placement consistency across runs
- Prioritize loose piece collection in early runs
- Design attachments to complete individual missions cleanly
- Group missions into runs and combine attachments to max points
- Create a Route Plan sequencing missions for optimal scoring
- Iterate runs continuously for accuracy and efficiency
Innovation Project
FLL teams identify a real-world problem and engineer a creative solution
The Problem
How do you excavate fragile buried artifacts — like fossil eggs — without damaging them? Archaeologists and paleontologists face this challenge constantly. The team set out to design a smarter excavation tool by testing a range of real methods and pushing them to failure.
What the Team Tested
Too sharp and strong — damages fragile specimens
Too hard to control softness — unpredictable force
Very slow — impractical for real excavation
Iteration ready — precise, gentle, effective
Our Solution — The Sonic Shifter
Inspired by sonic vibration's ability to gently displace soil, the team designed the Sonic Shifter — an AI-concept excavation device that combines multiple technologies to handle fragile buried finds safely and efficiently.
Gently excavates artifacts with precise sonic frequencies — loosens soil without contact force.
Delicate, extendable grips for manipulating fragile finds with variable pressure control.
Real-time display shows buried object details and composition before any digging begins.
Alerts the operator to material changes and object proximity to prevent over-excavation.
Auto-adjusts emitter settings for diverse excavation conditions — wet, dry, rocky, or clay soils.
Localized light capable of UV/IR spectrum for revealing hidden details in artifacts.
Core Values
FLL Core Values are at the heart of everything Team 65018 does. We discover together, we are stronger as a team, and we have fun while we learn. Every robot run, every innovation experiment, and every presentation reflects who we are — curious, kind, and determined.
Meet Our Team
Saanvi
Robot Designer · Bots Team
Anwita
Innovation Project Lead · Bots Team
Rajvir
Programmer · Bricks Team
Siyona
Core Values Captain · Bricks Team
Our Sponsors
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