Meet the robotic basketball hoop that won’t let you miss!

Check this thing out! This is pretty cool. This guy built a robotic basketball hoop that just won’t let you miss, and it uses realtime facial analysis to change the behavior for different players.

On average the electronics and custom software that power the backboard have roughly 600 milliseconds to identify the ball, distinguish it from the heads of those playing, calculate its trajectory and ultimate point of impact on the board, and then make the appropriate positional adjustments to deflect the basketball down and into the hoop.

The current version works, most of the time, but is limited by the speed of the processors used in the microcontrollers which are maxed out. With a few key upgrades, including faster, stronger, and more accurate electric motors repositioning the board, as well as beefier processors, the success rate of this never-miss hoop could be dramatically improved to the point where even Shaq could muster a respectable free throw percentage.