Youtube blogger Shane Wighton seems to have some obsessions when it comes to 100 shots. From his first 100-shot baskets to his 100-shot bows and arrows, Shane Wighton's inventions have been amazing enough. But he continues to improve on them, making them '100 shots' in every situation.
Now, he has taken the 100-shot basket to the 'ultimate evolutionary version'. Currently, even if you're shooting from a lying position or with your feet, you're still guaranteed "100 shots:"
Four improvements in two years: it's really hard to miss a shot
The latest video has been released and has once again hit the YouTube Hot 100. Let's take a look back at what the first few versions looked like.
In April 2020, Shane Wighton uploaded [the first version] on his YouTube channel (http://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=MzA3MzI4MjgzMw==&mid=2650786794&idx=3&sn= e289bbb80cdb4a824de6af3e340736ba&chksm=871a0f94b06d8682e93aa242646f258d90346414a53dd17a09ee5fc2ec44a17c4a7aa93bee74&scene=21# wechat_redirect)The making of the "100 shot" basketball board. He designed a curved rebound whose curvature was precisely calculated to make it easy for people with very poor ball skills to score.
In second edition, Shane Wighton uses robotics and computer vision technology , the rim can be shaken back and forth, up and down, left and right, with the addition of a visual recognition system. When the ball hits the rim, the rim adjusts its own angle and bounces the ball into the basket.
Even so, there are some bugs that can make the board "flop". suppose a person is so bad that they can't hit the board, then the board can't help. The board will even drop the ball and give a voice feedback: "you really suck at basketball" ......
So in the third edition, Shane Wighton has made another major improvement: make the rim move up to catch the ball, and you're just responsible for throwing it at the wall.
But there is still a problem: what if I don't throw the ball far enough?
Shane Wighton makes the rim evolve yet again, giving a satisfying answer: it's a mature rim that's starting to learn to find the ball on its own.
This self-contained, tethered rebound is capable of moving silky smoothly around a dozen square foot court: the
Failing is a hard thing to do, no matter where and how you throw the ball from, basically hitting it on the first pitch: the
Technical Principle Breakdown
Does it have to be a "shot in the hoop" thing? It might be more accurate to let the basket find the ball itself.
First, we needed to have a basket that could move freely.Shane Wighton installed multiple axes in a room to allow the rim and basket to be moved anywhere in the room:.
These shafts are steel ropes from the corners of the wall, at an angle to the wall, and if they were all horizontal and vertical, the basket would hit the thrower as it moved: the
Pulleys are required to pull these steel ropes at corners.
The baskets and ropes are connected by hook and loop.
At this point, a basket that can move freely is basically built. Because the axis is at an angle to the wall, the basket can not only move, but also rotate its direction.
Operating such a large device covering a whole room is bound to consume a lot of energy, so Shane Wighton has added a diesel generator to the device.
Based on the position of the basketball movement, Shane Wighton wrote the manipulation program and wrote it into a chip. The mechanism of operation of the basket-moving device is shown in the following diagram.
Previously in "100 Shot Bow and Arrow", Shane Wighton fitted the bow with a reflective ball and used An 'eagle eye' system pinpoints the position of the bow, arrow and frisbee. This time, Shane Wighton used a similar "mechanism" on the basketball - evenly applying reflective stickers to the basketball
The position of the basketball can be accurately captured by the "Eagle Eye" system.
But a basketball, unlike a bow and arrow, does not have a single parabolic trajectory; it can even fall to the ground and bounce back into the basket: the
So the question arises, when does the basket move to catch the ball? If the timing is not right, the rim could also knock over someone: the
Shane Wighton found that it is possible to construct relationships between the axis of traction on the basket and the trajectory of the basketball, which in turn affects the path of movement of the basket: the
To more accurately find where the ball enters the frame, Shane Wighton has also installed reflective balls on each axis, and the intersection of the multiple possible trajectories of the axis is where the basketball enters the basket: the
Finally, in order to prevent the basketball from hitting the wall and becoming vertical and horizontal, Shane Wighton replaced the original reflective sticker on the basketball with a reflective ball embedded in the basketball.
Of course, success didn't come easily, and Shane Wighton flopped a few times.
After several improvements, he finally achieved the desired effect, showing his wife that
This is definitely a lot of work, and readers who want to get their hands on it and make it happen can refer to the original video at