{"id":39109,"date":"2022-06-06T17:07:03","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T17:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/100-mph-smart-basketball-hoop-will-turn-you-into-lebron-james\/"},"modified":"2022-06-06T17:07:03","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T17:07:03","slug":"100-mph-smart-basketball-hoop-will-turn-you-into-lebron-james","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/100-mph-smart-basketball-hoop-will-turn-you-into-lebron-james\/","title":{"rendered":"100 MPH Smart Basketball Hoop Will Turn You into LeBron James"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<figure class=\"sc-1eow4w5-1 eLNveM align--bleed js_lazy-image js_marquee-assetfigure\" data-id=\"4ac214ab9388a8c083bc0b4059c66c51\" data-recommend-id=\"image:\/\/4ac214ab9388a8c083bc0b4059c66c51\" data-format=\"gif\" data-width=\"800\" data-height=\"450\" data-lightbox=\"true\" data-recommended=\"true\" data-hide=\"false\" contenteditable=\"false\" draggable=\"false\"><span data-id=\"4ac214ab9388a8c083bc0b4059c66c51\" data-recommend-id=\"image:\/\/4ac214ab9388a8c083bc0b4059c66c51\" data-format=\"gif\" data-width=\"800\" data-height=\"450\" data-lightbox=\"true\" data-recommended=\"true\" data-hide=\"false\" class=\"js_recommend\"\/><\/figure>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 bOfvBY\">The lengths to which <span>Shane Wighton<\/span> will go to avoid having to practice to get better at basketball are staggering.  The engineer has <span>created yet another high-tech basketball hoop<\/span> that tracks the motion of the ball<!-- --> and,<!-- --> this time,<!-- --> travels at 100MPH across a room to to ensure it always goes through the hoop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 bOfvBY\">We&#8217;ve been covering this unusual arms race for a few years now, as Wighton continues to try to one-up himself with more complex ways to put a ball through a hoop.  It started with a <span>peculiarly curved backboard<\/span> designed with countless computer simulations that deflected any shot into the hoop, but that was <span>eventually upgraded to a moving backboard<\/span> that could track the trajectory of the ball and angle the board to ensure the ball always <!-- -->went through the hoop.  Both solutions required players to actually hit the backboard, however, which led Wighton to then create a basketball hoop that could reposition itself on a wall to accommodate particularly bad shots.<!-- --> B.<!-- -->ut what if someone with hoop dreams couldn&#8217;t even reliably hit a wall?<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 bOfvBY\">Wighton&#8217;s latest creation is an equal mix of impressive and terrifying,<!-- --> as it involves a custom-built lightweight basketball hoop made of aluminum, foam, and fiber glass that can fly around a room in 3D space thanks to a complex pulley system powered by six electric motors with 50 horsepower in total.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"flex-video widescreen\"><iframe data-src=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/embed\/inset\/iframe?id=youtube-video-xHWXZyfhQas&amp;start=0\" data-chomp-id=\"xHWXZyfhQas\" data-recommend-id=\"youtube:\/\/xHWXZyfhQas\" id=\"youtube-xHWXZyfhQas\" data-recommended=\"false\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"core-inset lazyload\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"webkitAllowFullScreen\" mozallowfullscreen=\"mozallowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><span data-chomp-id=\"xHWXZyfhQas\" data-recommend-id=\"youtube:\/\/xHWXZyfhQas\" id=\"youtube-xHWXZyfhQas\" data-recommended=\"false\" class=\"js_recommend\"\/><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 bOfvBY\">As with <span>many of Wighton&#8217;s previous builds<\/span>this absurd creation required considerable levels of engineering to succeed, including everything from a custom-designed brake system that could stop all six motors in a heartbeat should something go wrong, to a foam basketball that was carved out on a CNC machine, which<!-- --> allowed<!-- --> spherical markers to be embedded all over it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 bOfvBY\">Previously, Wighton used a Microsoft Kinect to visually track the trajectory of every shot, but this time he switched to a series of <span>OptiTrack motion capture cameras<\/span> (which he had on hand from his <span>never-miss auto-aiming bow<\/span>) which track both the position and orientation of the backboard in 3D space.  They also track<!-- --> the ball as well, with 100 times more accuracy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 bOfvBY\">Watching the backboard in action when all of the bugs and kinks are finally all worked out is astonishing, and Wighton points out that the system doesn&#8217;t even take full advantage of all the power the six electric motors offer.  The backboard could easily hit speeds of up to 250MPH as it repositions itself to intercept a<!-- --> basketball in flight, but that would also result in the pulley system it relies on being torn from the wall in the process.  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