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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 3

2024 Season – Week 3

by | Jan 27, 2024

Greetings from the Hitchhikers! In Week 3, we were more than excited and happy to welcome Marie E. Hopper, the President of FIRST North Carolina. She talked to all the members about her history with mentoring and FIRST and talked to each member about why they joined,...

2024 Season – Week 2

2024 Season – Week 2

by | Jan 25, 2024

Greetings from the Hitchhikers! In Week 2, our team delved into the intricacies of designing a shooter and intake while mastering CAD & Electronics. Our shooter design focuses on achieving optimal velocity control, ensuring consistency in launching game elements,...

2024 Season – Week 1

2024 Season – Week 1

by | Jan 16, 2024

It's the 1st week of the 2024 season, and the Hitchhikers are back in force. We held kickoff at a student's house and immediately after learning the game, we split into 3 groups to learn about the game, and to present to the rest of the team our findings and any...

2023 Season – NC District Championship

2023 Season – NC District Championship

by | Apr 2, 2023

We had a lot of fun at the state championship. We were chosen in the 5th alliance, with Team 900, The Zebracorns, and Team 5518, Technowolves. Sadly, we got eliminated in Round 2 after a robot had a CAN error. We lost by 8 points after another robot hit us and we...

2023 Season – Week 6

by | Feb 18, 2023

Week 6 and we have a fully functioning robot. We are starting to practice on a field, and fine tune the controls and software and starting to make changes to the gripper. Lots of progess. 

2023 Season – Week 4

2023 Season – Week 4

by | Feb 5, 2023

Assembly of the robot is proceedingWeek 4 is finished. We're working on version 5 of our gripper claw, and playing with different gearing and dimensions of the telescoping arm. And we are starting to build the actual robot. And, our website is running better. 

2023 Season – Week 3

2023 Season – Week 3

by | Jan 27, 2023

A few members work on the latest gripper version.Week 3 is finished. We're working on version 4 of our gripper claw, and playing with different gearing and dimensions of the telescoping arm. that the gripper will get mounted on. And, our website is running better. 

2023 Season – Week 2

2023 Season – Week 2

by | Jan 21, 2023

Two members work on the gripper.Week 2 is finished. We're working on autonomous driving, the gripper claw (to grab cones and cubes), and the telescoping arm that the gripper will get mounted on. But most importantly, we're working on getting the website running. 

2022 Science Museum in Raleigh

2022 Science Museum in Raleigh

by | Sep 5, 2022

After a fun and exciting season, we were more than happy to spend a day showcasing our robots at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. It was a fun day showing kids and parents our robots, and letting the kids drive the robots around and shoot balls.