I made a 100MPH flying basketball hoop
I made a 100MPH flying basketball hoop
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I’ve known this was the endgame for the robotic basketball hoop ever since I made the first one. It’s time I actually did it.
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Reminds me of the opening scene from Ghost Ship
This is so awesome. Your videos are always fantastic, but this is a major level up for you. Also, this system would be really cool for a ping pong robot!
You should make it return the ball to you after you score.
I haven’t spent too much time thinking over this, but is gradient descent susceptible to pseudo-stable states? If so does the standard approach use some method of random noise in the position shift phase in order to overcome this?
I can imagine this at a theme park.
“Please stand clear of the flying basketball hoop.” in a polite but stern voice.
People will have to pay $10 to try to miss the hoop to get price.
@Max Broomfield lets game it out
There will be a reward if you miss.
I give it 2 hours of operation before someone gets diced by the steel cables. That thing is truly terrifying.
I would imagine that more as GLaDOS in an Aperture Science test track.
I want to see it do infinite points. Keep the hoop “stationary” (relative to the ball) right when the ball center is in the hoop center, following the parabolic trajectory. So the camera attached to the backboard filming the hoop sees the ball float in the hoop without touching anything with the entire room spinning in the background. 🙂
That would be cool 😎
The fact that you edited the reflection of the caveman in the TV at 10:27 really captures the insane degree of effort you put into these projects and videos. Thanks so much for sharing!
I wouldn’t be surprised if that caveman video isn’t a stock video. At this point, I’d believe it if Stuff Made Here told us that he actually went back in time and showed a TV to real caveman.
I wouldn’t be surprised if that caveman video isn’t a stock video. At this point, I’d believe it if Stuff Made Here told us that he actually attached a TV to some cave then make fire while wearing a caveman costume just for that clip.
You are THE engineering god! Having the discipline and skills to make such a project is insane, It would be cool if you made educational content or a podcast to learn more from you.
I’m sure it was taken into consideration, but those rapidly moving, thin pieces of wire had me more worried for safety than the foam board/aluminium hoop.
I was thinking the same, but maybe pool noodles/foam tubes could help this
I can already see you 1-up yourself next year with a 4D Hoop that can catch Balls you haven’t even thrown yet.
@Ali Could be a dimension, though.
@Clinton Leonard That is not how time works. Time is a concept we percive depending on the space around us and the rate thing move in it. NOT another dimension.
@Ali Time is what we perceive as we move from low to high entropy, but in reality different moments are actually in different *places* in higher dimensions.
@Clinton Leonard Mate time isn’t a dimension
@Ali That’s because time is a spatial dimention. We perceive time because we are only seeing 3D cross sections of the 4th as we move through it.
You’re doing this so in the right way, safety in everything and engineering.
Your videos are really inspiring!
Gotta love how he just told us extensively how all of his problems stem form how he can’t put what he wants the machine to do into software properly, and 1 minute later he’s like “This thing could murder accidentally somebody, but I’ll just put the safety feature into software.” Then at 22:10 we can see the thing go clearly below head-height.
It technically wasn’t below his head height
“hey there, it’s future me. he’s an idiot.” actually laughed out loud at this one