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FNC District Wake County Event
FIRST North Carolina Wake County District Event: A Recap We had a lot of fun at this weekend's district event in Wake Forest at Heritage High School. We were the number 1 alliance captain and we had TerrorBytes and TMSA MechaTigers on our alliance. We pulled off a...
2026 Season Week 7: Last Week Before Competition!
Week 7 of REBUILT: Last Week Before Competition! This week, we focused on final tuning of our robot and little mechanical changes here and there to ensure our robot was functioning properly. We rigorously tested our on-the-fly shooting system to ensure it was working...
2026 Season Week 6
Week 6 of REBUILT! This week was heavily focused on improving our shooter, specifically tuning it to make it more reliable and consistent. Additionally, we made progress on our expandable hopper, wiring, and autonomous, with some vision and pose tracking struggles. We...
2026 Season Week 5
Week 5 of REBUILT! This week, we continued programming and testing. We completely overhauled the wiring of our robot to make it neater and more organized. In addition, we significantly changed the design of several subsystems. We added new rollers to the shooters and...
2026 Season Week 4
Week 4 of REBUILT! We are still busy designing, building, thinking, trying, programming. How are we going to drive, collect, shoot, climb! FUN!! We re-built, again, the mechanism for moving the balls from the box to the shooter. The chassis is done, collector...
2026 Season Week 3
Week 3 of REBUILT! We are still busy designing, building, thinking, trying, programming. How are we going to drive, collect, shoot, climb! FUN!! We re-built, again, the mechanism for moving the balls from the box to the shooter. The chassis is done, collector...
2026 Season Week 2
Week 2 of REBUILT! We are still busy designing, building, thinking, trying, programming. How are we going to drive, collect, shoot, climb! FUN!! We re-built the mechanism for moving the balls from the box to the shooter. The chassis is almost done, and we are trying...
2026 Season Week 1
Week 1 of the FRC 2026 Season REBUILT! We are busy designing, building, thinking, trying, programming. How are we going to drive, collect, shoot, climb! FUN!! We built the mechanism for moving the balls from the box to the shooter.
2026 Team Applications Open!
This year was one of the Hitchhikers' most successful seasons in many years. After earning a blue banner at the Wake County district event, becoming finalists in Pitt County, winning ANOTHER blue banner at UNC Pembroke, and making it to states, we couldn't be...
FNC District Wake County Event
WOW! What a weekend!! We ended up ranked 6th at the Wake County District Event after the qualification rounds. We competed in the playoffs as the Captain of Alliance 4. We chose Team 9032 RoboWhales and Team 5190 Falcon Fury to join our Alliance. After many tight and...
2025 Season – BUSY!
Greetings from the Hitchhikers! We have been busy getting ready for the 2025 Season. Finishing the updates to "Wonko", increasing the speed of collecting, placing Coral and climbing the cage. We have a few 2 coral auto programmed now, but still having a few...
2024 Season – Week 11
Greetings from the Hitchhikers! In Week 11, we are busy finishing the updates to "Max", increasing the speed of collecting, shooting and climbing. We have a few 3 note autos programmed now,
Orange County District Competition
Title: The Hitchhikers Robotics Team Takes Orange County by Storm! Hey everyone! If you've been following the journey of The Hitchhikers robotics team, you know that we're always up for a challenge and a good time. Well, let me tell you about our recent adventure at...
2024 Season – Week 7
Greetings from the Hitchhikers!In Week 7, we finished building "Max" and continue programming and testing. We had tryouts for the drivers and drive team.
2024 Season – Week 5
Greetings from the Hitchhikers!In Week 5, we continue prototyping and testing the shooter and intake. Our first shooter design pretty much failed, so we redesigned it. We continue honing our CAD skills, electronics, build and test our design.