All videos on this channel are worth watching. Interestingly enough, this one and another of my favourite channels [1] are run by Formlabs employees. It seems like they have some excellent engineers working for them.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMf49SMPnhxdLormhEpfyfg" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMf49SMPnhxdLormhEpfyfg</a>
One of the best self projects i've ever seen. I hope he is being mentoring somewhere to take advantage. This guy could be the next Jony Ive.<p>But why windows? Realtime OS needed badly.
Another similar project by Mark Rober for darts: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHTizZ_XcUM" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHTizZ_XcUM</a>
"My head is never gonna be following a ballistic trajectory.. I hope not, at least" - he should have inserted a second shot of his annoyed wife after that.
This should be mandatory viewing for every high school class -- finally an answer to everyone asking "when will I ever need to use a quadratic equation in real life"
See also <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22898653" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22898653</a><p>Put the robot backboard at one end and the curved one at the other end, hold some sort of tournament ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I'm impressed at how this guy's channel has taken off. The first version of this (a static backboard optimized to put as many shots into the hoop as possible) was posted here, and he had something like a few hundred subscribers and a few hundred views. That video now has 4M views and he has 82k subscribers. He deserves the subscribers, as the rest of his videos are great, but I'm curious as to which medium got the most viewers. HN? (Seems unlikely to me.) Reddit? Twitter? The Algorithm?
This is a sweet project, but what's really awesome is how clearly he explains the whole thing, from hardware to software.<p>I'm also really impressed at the way that he uses the tablet to quickly and interactively generate diagrams in (mostly) real time while speaking. Sure, he could make a "cleaner" animation but doing it this way is just as effective and probably saves a ton of time.
I would have loved to take a look at the code. I had the same reaction when his previous baseboard project hit HN.<p>Leaving this other reference <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_manipulator" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_manipulator</a> Inverse kinematics of parallel manipulators for the general case can get really hairy
A few weeks ago there was a similar project, only that it was more analog as in the guy 3d printed an oval shaped hoop, so at every-angle it would go in, not as techno as this one, but more cool if you ask me
HN discussion of the previous version: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22898653" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22898653</a>
Very cool project! I am impressed by a how fast this was created too!<p>what a great workshop! And how did he get his hands on that CNC machine? Is it only for personal projects or also for freelancing?
When he says something like "600 milliseconds is not a lot of time", what is the limiting factor? Is it the sampling rate of sensor input (video)?