Blog
2017 Houston World Championships
“We made it!” proclaimed several hitchhikers as the World Championships in Houston commenced on Wednesday. Prior to the start of Worlds, we found out we had been placed in the Carver Division, which turned out to be one of the more competitive divisions. The start of...
2017 State Championship
The week before States, and we started off with a meeting full of reflections, redesigns and a cup of tea. We envisioned a newly designed gear gobbler (our gear collector) to withstand collisions, a frame to prevent gears from falling into our electronics, and dreamed...
2017 Raleigh District Event
During the Greensboro playoff rounds, our gear collector was destroyed in the heat of competition. As a result, we worked on making a new and improved one. It would still be automated, but it would allow us to collect a gear in the open field instead of chasing the...
2017 Greensboro District Event
Our first event was a huge learning experience and helped us to develop a clearer, more focused game strategy. At the first event, we learned that shooting was not the way to go for us. As a result, we took off our shooter and ball collector. We also realized that...
2017 Pitt County District Event
After bag & tag, we had about a week to prepare for our first competition, the Pitt County District Event. Over that week, we met on several days to continue fine tuning Slartibartfast, make buttons, start packing, and do anything else that needed to be done...
2016 Cary Christmas Parade
A couple of weeks before Christmas, we participated in the Cary Christmas Parade for our third time, allowing us to showcase our robots and introduce our team to our community. To get ready for the parade, we all pitched in to decorate our robots and float with a ton...
2017 Build Season
After much excitement, this year’s FIRST Robotics Competition game, STEAMworks, has finally been revealed. STEAMworks is a game where two alliances composed of three robots work to use steam power to prepare their respective airships for takeoff. This is accomplished...
Week 6 Update
This last week of build season, our team continued to fabricate parts for the chassis. Fortunately, it only took us a few days to make all the pieces and we were able to start assembling everything together. While we were putting everything together on for the second...
Week 5 Update
This week, our team accomplished a lot to get the robot driving and the arm to aim for the high goal. We we were also able to get our shooter rollers working. Towards the end of the week, we started to work on building a second robot chassis to give ourselves...
Week 4 Update
This past week, we continued to cut pieces for the chassis and assembled them. Along the way, we encountered a few problems such as cutting parts the wrong size and not making certain parts completely identical. This set us back a bit, but we were able to get...
Week 3 Update
On the third week of build season, we started to work on finishing the shooter frame and cut pieces for the robot chassis. At the beginning of the week, our team had a more finalized design of the robot and started to work on building the chassis and fabricating...
Week 2 Update
This second week of build season, we continued to improve our shooter and started figuring out the different angles for shooting. We also continued designing our robot in CAD and figuring out the dimensions and angles for the different parts and fitting them all...
Week 1 Update
During this first week of the build season, we have worked hard at the build space, strategizing, designing, prototyping, and testing programming for our robot. The first couple days, we met with a couple other teams and brainstormed strategies. Once we figured out...
2016 Kickoff
The energy was high as hundreds of high school students and mentors gathered together at Orange High School in Hillsborough, NC, and eagerly waited to watch the 2016 FRC game broadcast. Everyone was anticipating what the new challenge was all about, using the teaser...
Mock Kickoff
At the beginning of the year, our team spent the afternoon with FRC Team 3229, Hawktimus Prime, and did a “mock kickoff” to better prepare for the official the following week. For the first portion of the afternoon, we went over tips on what to focus on and look at...