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A 100mph basketball hoop you can't miss a shot in

by TomGullen on 6/5/22, 11:21 PM with 10 comments

• by frogger8 on 6/5/22, 11:59 PM

  Thank God for YouTube. Providing free mass scale distribution to creators almost instantaneously has generated a lot of garbage content but also some real masterpieces. So much fun to watch this.

• by samarthr1 on 6/6/22, 12:09 AM

  That channel (Stuff Made Here) is like every Engineer/ Machinists wet dream come true... Really loved his content.

• by rasz on 6/6/22, 4:43 PM

  19 minutes into video for him to realize its a death machine :o. Death by robots is no joke. First one ever recorded https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Williams_(robot_fatalit...

  https://www.automate.org/industry-insights/robot-safety-ever...

  "Over a 30-year span 37 robot-related accidents occurred, according to a search of OSHA incident reports. Of that number between 1984 and 2013, 27 incidents resulted in a worker's death.Aug 20, 2015"

• by asxd on 6/6/22, 7:24 AM

  Really cool project. I was a bit confused about his explanation on measuring where the anchors were in space. Why would a tape measure not be enough?

  I was also a bit surprised that more primitive CV wasn't used to track the ball--he had to freeze the ball and then machine holes into the ball to insert tracking objects. I would have thought that image recognition could have solved the problem without the trackers. Maybe the issue was that this requires very low latency?

• by throwaway0a5e on 6/6/22, 12:39 AM

  I'm surprised someone with his skills doesn't have better/cheaper solution for medium amperage power distribution.

• by bulletmagnet on 6/11/22, 5:19 PM

  Homeboy built the Iron Dome in his garage