A family and community robotics team from Austin, Texas, competing in the FIRST Tech Challenge. We build vision-driven robots, publish everything we learn, and bring more people into robotics every season.
Q Bits is a community and family FTC team — students, parents, and mentors building robots together in Austin. Our name comes from the qubit, the basic unit of quantum computing, because like a qubit we hold many roles in superposition: engineers, programmers, writers, and ambassadors for STEM.
Our engineering identity is computer vision and artificial intelligence. We build robots that see and adapt, and we document the process openly so any rookie team can follow the same path.
Off the field, we practice Gracious Professionalism — competing hard, helping harder, and treating every event as a chance to grow the community that got us here.
CAD, fabrication, and the robot's moving parts.
Java, vision, and autonomous control systems.
Scouting, drills, and match-day operation.
Portfolio, sponsors, and telling our story.
Every measurement collapses into a result. Official records for team 23312 — six judged awards and counting across three seasons.
The Qubit Bot forms as a family and community team in Austin, registers with FIRST in the Texas (FiT) region, and fields its first competition robot in the GEMS League — learning the hard way so future rookies don't have to.
Captained our alliance all the way to the final match at both the GEMS League Tournament and the Regional Championship's Jocelyn Burnell Division, where we ranked 4th of 24 in qualifications. Judges recognized our documentation and design along the way.
Our most decorated season yet: four judged awards across seven official events, capped by the Inspire Award — FTC's highest honor — at the FiT-Central Last Call Qualifier, where we ranked 3rd of 35 and captained an alliance. We advanced to the Texas Regional Championship, earning a Think Award podium in the Terra Division.
Our DECODE-season robot — officially registered under the only name a quantum team could choose. Until the match is scored, it's simultaneously winning and losing.
Mecanum drivetrain, goBILDA structure, and 3D-printed mechanisms — subsystems swap between iterations without a full rebuild.
Java on the FTC SDK with camera-based detection, PID control, and state-machine autonomous routines that adapt to what the robot sees.
Every design decision, failure, and fix lands in the engineering portfolio — the same record judges read and rookies learn from.
Want to join, sponsor, or invite us for a demo? One email starts everything — we answer every message.